Are you sure that your PC or Notebook has not been compromised by a hacker when you do your internet banking?

    
Many of today's significant threats originate at end point devices, and therefore Desktop Protection is a necessity to guard against leakage of sensitive and confidential information, whether intentional, unintentional or malicious.

Device control must contain the control and management of all end point devices from a central management system.

The inclusion of Device Encryption for PC's, Notebooks, Mobile devices and all removable media has now become essential in the fight to combat exposure.

There is a growing amount and range of devices that are used to breach security systems. All these must be managed according to their type and models and definitely not by how they are connected to the network.

Should an End Point solution be implemented, the solution must address PDA's,
    Windows CE devices
     Palm OS hand-held devices
     Blackberry devices

In addition, organisations should insist that Desktop Device Control solutions manage and control the focal points on the network to include;

Modems, Wireless LAN adapters, Digital Cameras, CD / DVD readers and writers, Scanners, Smart Card Readers, USB Printers, USB Memory Sticks, ZIP Drives, Tape Drives, Hard disk Drives, Floppy disk Drives, Biotech Devices.

Encryption

These end point solutions must be capable of accommodating encryption of devices across the wide spectrum of hand-held devices, with a single management system.

By using multiple systems, it increases the difficulty to monitor, control, and manage.

With the advent of mobility, remote devices in the way of hard drives should be encrypted with either full hard drive encryption or a pre-boot authentication program.

Comprehensive encryption of memory sticks, CD's and DVD's is strongly advisable.
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