McAfee Port Control
(formerly SafeBoot Port Control)
Govern the use of removable devices connected to your PCs
Protecting your data assets is tougher than ever. Today, a wide range and enormous quantity of USB thumb drives, Bluetooth devices, and other media can connect to your endpoints. If keeping confidential data secure is keeping you up at night, rest easier with McAfee Port Control. It provides strong access control, so that only authorized individuals can connect only approved devices to endpoints.
As long as PCs have been in use, they have featured wired ports to connect them to peripherals and networks among other things. In recent years, wireless connectivity has become increasingly popular as well. And while these wired and wireless ports are obviously useful, they also pose a potential security threat to your customer information and proprietary data. Any number of unapproved devices could be attached to your endpoint ports and used to siphon off your confidential information.
McAfee Port Control helps keep your sensitive data from leaving your company through strong access control. Only authorized individuals may connect only approved devices to PC ports, including memory sticks, removable disks, and more.
Through a centralized management console, you establish security policies that control how users copy information to removable devices and media. You can even synchronize these security policies with existing solutions, such as Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, and PKI. These security policies then run transparently to keep users productive. The only time users would even become aware of Port Control would be if they attempted to use an unauthorized storage device in violation of your established policies.
This solution's centralized management gives you precise control over all devices, regardless of how they are attached to your endpoints. You have the options of enabling or disabling an entire class of devices through standard policies, or allowing some while disallowing others through policies with exceptions:
- Standard policy: No removable drives allowed
- Policy with exception: No removable drives allowed except Manufacturer A's USB memory stick
Finally, Port Control integrates with McAfee Endpoint Encryption (formerly SafeBoot Encryption) and other technologies to provide end-to-end data and device security within your environment.
