Centennial Takes Care of Internal Security

Nov 24, 2005: Have you been hearing the word ‘mutiny’ whispered around your office of late? Worried about a staff backlash to your decision to remove the pool table from the common room? Are you about to make a Channel Nine-esque mass redundancies announcement and want to protect your assets?

DeviceWall from Centennial Software promises to put a halt to casual security breeches and plug security holes that can so easily slip under the radar.

It’s getting easier by the day to sync up portable devices with PCs and transfer data. Phones, PDAs and USB keys can be easily brought in and out of offices, filled to the brim with sensitive data, and taken home with no trace they were ever used.

Up until now, the only real way to stop this was to disable things like USB ports on staff computers. But this can make life difficult for some workers who need the extra flexibility.

To combat casual security breeches whilst retaining technological flexibility, Centennial Software has released DeviceWall to enable management to take control of their organisation’s data flow.

The software automatically and silently installs itself on all PCs connected to the LAN or WAN, and allows administrators to implement company-wide policies on access. For example, if USB sticks, CD burners and PDA’s are deemed too risky, they can all be blocked from use, set to read only or write only. Changes happen dynamically, and can be repealed for one or all staff members at any time.

Whether it’s USB, wireless, Bluetooth, infrared, floppy drives, CD burners or any plug and play device that hasn’t been thought of yet, DeviceWall puts the power to control the flow of information on and off peripherals back into the hands of administrators.

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