Zlock Control of peripheral Devices

Control of Peripheral Devices

The Zlock™  system is designed to monitor and control users’ access to internal and external computer devices across network perimeter. The software prevents leakage of corporate sensitive information, while providing tools to manage the data movements to and from the network.

Zlock offers the flexibility of customizing users’ access based on a single user, group of users, a particular device (type of device) or groups of devices. By controlling all computer access points, an organization can significantly reduce risks associated with the data being unknowingly moved or copied of the network through an external computer port (USB, LPT, COM, IrDA, PCMCIA, IEEE 1394, etc), or an internal computer device (network card, modem, Bluetooth, WiFi, CD/DVD drive, etc). Even use of local and network printers can be brought under the Zlock controlled domain.

Zlock segregates device access privileges by way of access policies. The policies may use different input criteria when determining if a device is accessible. For example, an access policy can be created based on device type, device serial number, manufacturer or manufacturing date, or other distinct data that allows Zlock  to uniquely identify the device or the group of devices. The system catalogs and stores the device description data provided by the manufacturers in a centralized location, making it readily available to system administrators when creating access policies.

The system deployment and administration can be done from Zlock Management Console or through domain group policies. Zlock is tightly integrated with Microsoft NT Active Directory, giving the system administrators full view of all network assets. This feature is especially useful when managing large-scale installations.

Zlock is the only system of its class that offers client modules monitoring, which allows system administrators to receive real-time information about client-side Zlock related events. As the result, an IT security desk can respond in a timely manner to suspicious or unsanctioned user activity. 

With Zlock, an organization can implement today’s most demanding information security policies. The Shadow (silent) copy and the event logging are powerful tools that would help the security desk to retrospectively recreate use of an authorized device when investigating potential incidents. The preventive approach of the Shadow copy (taking the document copy before it is moved to an external device) guarantees that none of the corporate documents will be taken out without a record of who took it, when it happened, and what exactly was moved to the external device. The same type of scrutiny can be applied to printing materials on local and network printers.

Zlock significantly strenghens an organization’s ability to monitor its personnel, investigate any potential security breaches and quickly react to threats imposed by the insiders.

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