Zlock Endpoint Security Software

Secure, Monitor and Control USB Ports and Devices

Removable media such as USB thumb drives and DVDs are a double-edged sword for data. The media is portable and convenient - making it easy to transport gigabytes of data in your pocket. But, the flipside of that benefit is that portable media is also easily lost or stolen, and provides disgruntled workers with the means to steal or leak gigabytes of data as well.

Authorized Users Are Biggest Threat

Statistics on departing employees taking confidential proprietary data with them when they leave are frankly chilling. Departing employees routinely take the company's customer data, email and contact lists, employee records, financial records, confidential business documents, and other intellectual property. A 2009 survey by the Ponemon Institute revealed that 59% of workers changing jobs - whether fired or by their own choice - did not feel any wrongdoing in taking sensitive company data with them. Roughly two-thirds of the group admitted using the data to gain an edge when applying for a new job.

While a majority of workers "in transit" do not intend to cause their former employers substantial harm, some of the biggest security threats can come from disloyal and/or disgruntled employees. An unhappy worker with privileged data access rights can cause an organization more damage than any outside attack. The insider knows what the company’s most valuable data assets are and exactly where to find them. Things are even more difficult when the offender knows how to circumvent the detection mechanisms to steal the data unnoticed.

The risk is even higher during economic downturns when companies cut employees to improve the bottom line. Naturally, there is increased anxiety and distress among the workforce during such times and an organization should not underestimate the potentially devastating effects of misuse of data by its employees.

The problem is significantly intensified by the widespread proliferation of mobile storage devices connected via USB ports, such as flash-memory drives, hard drives, smartphones, MP3 players, digital cameras and other digital recording media. Unless these USB and other peripheral devices are locked down and monitored at all perimeter endpoints, they provide a convenient, virtually undetectable way to obtain and move around vast amounts of corporate data.

Protect Sensitive Data with Zlock

Zlock is an endpoint security software solution that was specifically designed and developed to address today’s corporate needs to prevent data leakage by securing and managing various computer ports including USB, LPT, Firewire, Serial, and more. Zlock enables organizations to lock down computer ports without limiting the legitimate use of removable media, or hindering productivity.

Zlock provides IT admins with a system for controlling which ports or devices are allowed for which users, maintained through an intuitive management console. Zlock user access control is tightly integrated with Active Directory (AD) so IT admins can minimize additional effort and leverage the existing AD user groups to assign port/device access rights, or block access for users or groups that don't need it.

What makes Zlock truly unique is the ability to specify privileges for USB devices and other removable media based on granular criteria such as device type, device code, device manufacturer, device serial number, and more. This detailed level of control enables IT admins to create custom port/device access policies based on any defined device classification and assign them to users.

For example, rather than blocking the ability to use USB thumb drives at all, a policy can be implanted that prohibits copying data on any device other than company-issued encrypted USB flash drives from a specific manufacturer. It is also possible to limit a user to only storing data on a specific device based on serial number.

Zlock isn't just about controlling or blocking access, though. Zlock also provides the tools to monitor which data has been stored on which removable media so organizations know when sensitive data is copied, and who has it.

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Zecurion is passionate about helping our customers protect their information and prevent data leaks. We work hard to help businesses understand that a data breach is much more costly than investing in data leak prevention and data protection tools, but we appreciate that these are tough economic times and that many businesses simply don’t have the budget available to protect their data. To help our customers out, we are offering the Zecurion Economic Stimulus Plan for Data Protection for a limited time. Now through the end of 2011, customers who purchase a one-year support plan for a product will receive the product license free - an 80 percent savings. Act now to take advantage of this offer and save 80 percent on Zecurion’s industry leading DLP and data protection products.