• Features
  • USB Monitoring
  • Automatic Remediation
  • Reporting
  • Analytics
  • Alerting
  • Enterprise Activity Monitoring
  • File Integrity Monitoring
  • Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring
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EventTracker Features - USB Monitoring

The proliferation of USB devices has opened up a new security hole in the corporate network. Much of the more serious theft of corporate data today is from internal sources and a very convenient and quick way to grab sensitive data is by utilizing flash-drives to copy confidential data. This operation often takes just a few seconds and since it can be easily done from a desktop, physically limiting access to the servers is not a complete solution.

IT departments generally take one of three approaches to balance overall security needs with employee productivity needs:

• Shut USB's down entirely
• Simply ignore the problem, or
• Spend hundreds of dollars per system for complex DLP solutions

Neither of the first two options are desirable, the first substantially cuts productivity and makes the user community distinctly unhappy, while the latter is simply a security breach waiting to happen. The third is overkill for many organizations today and is beyond the budget of all but a few.

With EventTracker's USB monitoring there is now a more effective method to manage USB storage devices: trust but verify.

EventTracker provides advanced monitoring and analysis of the usage of these devices including:

• Tracking Insert/Removal
• Recording all activity (file writes to)
• Disabling according to predefined policy

With EventTracker you can, for example:

• Set a policy that permits only certain devices to be used on servers
• Continuously monitor all USB usage on workstations
• Alert in real-time on the insertion of devices
• Block a specific device, if necessary
• Record all files that a user is writing to the USB

Included in the EventTracker Reports Engine are pre-packaged reports that can display all USB activity, including:

• Who the user was,
• What type of device was used
• What files were copied to the device

A complete inventory is captured that can be used for real-time analysis as well as a powerful forensic tool.

EventTracker's USB monitoring is included in every Windows agent for no additional fee.