Lumension Security has received a US patent for
itsdata-shadowing technology, which
enables organisations to monitor all the information transferred to
or from removable media while capturing a full copy.
The technology provides a comprehensive audit trail to help
firms cope with
data compliance demands, the firm said.
"Virtually all organisations track data being sent via e-mail,
but very few monitor what is written to or read from removable
storage media," said Mike Wittig, president and CTO of Lumension
Security.
"Our Sanctuary Device Control system combines white-listing and
granular policy enforcement with this critical
data shadowing functionality to provide our customers with a
powerful tool for preventing data leakage," he said.
Sanctuary Device Control's data in-out shadowing capability
monitors, controls and audits the information that users may copy
to or from removable media to their PCs and laptops.
Administrators are able to capture the complete binary code of
the data transferred and save it on a centralised server. This can
be assimilated to an entire mirror copy of the data and used for
auditing purposes.