• Better protect your business from the risks of data loss
  Do all you can to avoid the disaster that a data loss could spell: brand damage, customer distrust, noncompliance penalties, competitive disadvantage, financial losses, and more
• Enable strong access control for your endpoints
  Prevent unauthorised access and use of removable devices-even when endpoints are not connected to the corporate network; identify and control all port device classes and types, right down to individual device exceptions
• Centralise management efforts
  Gain centralised management capabilities to reduce IT efforts, training, and total cost of ownership for your installed base of endpoints
• Support compliance with less effort
  Use extensive auditing and reporting capabilities to support compliance with regulatory data-security mandates

• Strong access control for desktops, laptops, and tablets
  Set up security policies that control how employees copy data to USB drives, recordable CDs and DVDs, Bluetooth and infrared devices, imaging equipment, COM and LPT ports, and more; block devices, make them read-only, or encrypt them for read/write
• Precise control over removable media
  Gain full control over devices that can connect to your endpoints; enable or disable an entire class of devices, or allow some while blocking others through individual device exceptions
• Centralised management
  Take advantage of central deployment, policy management, remote upgrades, a scripting tool, audit facilities, and policy synchronisation; synchronise Port Control security policies with Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, PKI, and others
• Integrated approach to security
  Integrate Port Control with other McAfee solutions, such as McAfee Endpoint Encryption (formerly SafeBoot® Encryption), to provide end-to-end data and device security and single sign-on capability

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 authorised individuals may connect only approved devices to PC ports, including memory sticks, removable disks, and more.

Through a centralised management console, you establish security policies that control how users copy information to removable devices and media. You can even synchronise 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 unauthorised storage device in violation of your established policies.

This solution’s centralised 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

Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Centralized management
Operating systems

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2
• Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows NT4.0 SP6A
• Also supports Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME in Application mode only—not recommended

Hardware requirements

• CPU: Pentium-compatible processor
• RAM: 128 MB, 512 MB recommended
• Disk space: 200 MB
• For remote administration, a TCP/IP network connection with a static DNS name/IP address is required
• For high-loaded systems, please contact your McAfee representative for information on setting up multiple-server implementations

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

• CPU: Pentium-compatible processor
• RAM: 256 MB
• Disk space: 5 MB
• For remote administration, a TCP/IP network connection is required