SearchInform DeviceSniffer

SearchInform began work on expansion of the list of the supported solutions for control of external devices via which valuable information also often leaves walls of the organization. Now the DeviceSniffer application is supported at once by two widely used software tools – DeviceLock and Lumension Device Control, – which exercise control over information written by users on USB, CD, DVD. It became possible thanks to recently concluded partnership of SearchInform with the world leader in information security field - Lumension Security Ltd. With the improved DeviceSniffer need to block external devices on computers of employees that often complicates work of the last will disappear.

In November, 2011 the company provided upgraded version of DeviceSniffer – a control facility of the external information media and other devices connected to computers through standard input/output ports. The product opportunity for work without use of third-party modules for interception of the data transferred to external devices became a key innovation of the offered version. Thanks to the built-in module implementing the specified functionality, SearchInform DeviceSniffer can work without acquisition of additional solutions of third-party producers and also consumes much less resources that is important for workstations with a modest hardware configuration. The lack of add-on third-party modules allows to forget about compatibility issues between them and also more closely to integrate search in the data intercepted using DeviceSniffer.

For those organizations where the products DeviceLock, Symantec DLP or Lumension DeviceControl are already implemented, there is still a possibility of support of integration into these solutions. At an otkazaa from use of third-party components, the total cost of implementation of SearchInform DeviceSniffer falls more than twice.

As before, SearchInform DeviceSniffer offers a full support of access lock to any external USB devices. Thanks to it the department of information security can give to the user the accessibility to USB printers, but at the same time limit his access to "flash cards". Address enable to the device in the mode "only reading" is possible, blocking or resolution of separate devices on their serial numbers is possible.

Among other opportunities of new DeviceSniffer It should be noted support of full control of devices for those users who work through terminal servers. It should be noted that SearchInform DeviceSniffer is a component of "A circuit of information security of SearchInform" - the complete solution for control of all channels of potential information leak in the organizations.

With an exit of new SearchInform DeviceSniffer for those clients at whom others are already set means of blocking of external devices, the special program of migration is provided: they have an opportunity of free transition to the new version of SearchInform DeviceSniffer with providing full technical support within one year. Thanks to it they will be able to get already today all advantages of a comprehensive protection of data over normal blocking of ports which is much less effective.

As the technical director of SearchInform Gallatin Andriy noted, "the new version of DeviceSniffer will allow clients to refuse use of third-party modules during the work with 'A circuit of information security of SearchInform' that will lower both load of personnel workstations, and cost of ownership of a packet. Thanks to it 'The circuit of information security of SearchInform' will be able to provide even more effectively protection against leakages of confidential data at workstations of customers".

In the fall of 2012 in the module DeviceSniffer, a control facility of the external information media and other devices connected to computers through standard input/output ports, in addition to the available integration into solutions of Lumension a similar opportunity for products of Symantec company is implemented.

SearchInform DeviceSniffer updated in the fall of 2014 supports automatic enciphering of all information written on external carriers. On all computers of corporate network where DeviceSniffer is set, the ciphered data will open without any difficulties for the user while the third-party person, having received a similar flash card, will see only the ciphered data. For ensuring legal data transmission to removed partners the mode of a remote unblocking is provided. Such simple mechanism provides confidential information protection of the company both from deliberate, and from accidental leaks.