AlertBoot hard disk encryption protects your data assets with advanced and powerful ciphers, but that’s not all there is to protecting your confidential information. Data leakage is a huge concern in organizations around the world. Everyone carries a USB key these days, and all those personal music players and external hard drives are getting smaller and smaller.

How many of your employees listen to their MP3 players while working? These electronic devices connect directly to a computer via hardware ports. What would stop one of your employees from downloading valuable customer and corporate data assets onto their music player and taking it out of the office? If there is a data breach, your organization is the one that will pay the price — both financially and publicly.

Stop unauthorized access with AlertBoot Port Control.

AlertBoot Port Control is launched from AlertBoot Central — the central management console — and applies strong security access control to ports on your organization's laptops and devices in order to prevent unauthorized use. By blocking a user's ability to transfer data from a laptop, you can effectively prevent potential data leaks or breaches.

AlertBoot Port Control is centrally configured in your existing security policies from AlertBoot Central’s management console. From here, the policies are pushed out and synchronized with devices remotely for easy configuration, efficient deployment, and optimal reporting of deployed policies for auditing compliance.

Port Control, quite simply, controls a user's access to various removable devices and drives that are not authorized for use with company-centric machines, due to the confidential nature of data contained therein.

AlertBoot controls access to the following types of ports (with examples):

• Serial ports (PDA’s, older communication devices)
• Parallel ports (Printers, older communication devices)
• USB ports (USB keys, personal music players, external hard drives, PDA’s)
• FireWire (external hard drives, personal music players, PDA’s)
• IrDA® (Infrared receivers, handheld portables, cell phones, cameras)
• CD-R / DVD-R (Burning data CD’s or DVD’s)

Extended features of Port Control allow an organization to adapt the security control policies to accommodate new devices or ports. Organizations can also discriminate between "good" and "bad" devices – based on the device classes, brand, and ID. This allows organizations to continue to use selective USB tokens or keys that are approved for use while excluding the use of other devices on that USB port.

With AlertBoot Port Control, protect your company from breaches of data by controlling what can and cannot be attached to and used with your workstations and laptops. Prevent access to insecure ports and stop unauthorized access to critical and confidential data before it even starts.