Desktop Security: Secure Enterprise Desktops from Data Theft and Malware

New and emerging threats continue to impact desktop security, which is a challenge that enterprises constantly face with security and support issues arising from endpoint users and their use of applications and devices. The security landscape has shifted from large, widespread attacks at the enterprise perimeter, to threats focusing on corporate endpoints, which are traditionally less secure.

The enterprise desktop is evolving as well as it is no longer bound to an office desk in a controlled environment. Unmanaged removable media and applications can easily bypass traditional desktop security methods and open the floodgates for data to escape into the wrong hands.

Securing Your Desktop
Desktop security requires software that enforces user behavior policies, so that enterprise desktops don’t become a doorway for sensitive data to escape and for security threats such as malware to enter. It is easy to block known security threats from your network - it is the hidden threats lurking on the desktops that require a different approach.

Sanctuary from Lumension provides desktop security through the use of a positive model approach that enables only authorised applications to run and only authorised devices to connect to a network, server, terminal services server, laptop, thin client or desktop - facilitating security and systems management, while providing necessary flexibility to the organisation to easily enable the use of new/upgraded applications or devices.

Sanctuary provides the necessary controls to secure desktops from unknown software, malicious code, and unauthorised applications as well as to manage and secure inbound and outbound data flow from desktops. Desktop security that Sanctuary software provides ensures the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data by enforcing encryption when copied to removable media. Sanctuary also can show the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of an organisation’s desktop security policy, by providing detailed audit information that shows successful and unsuccessful attempts to connect a device or execute an application on a protected desktop.

Complete Desktop Security is achieved with Sanctuary by the following:

• Enforcing desktop security policies that prevent known and unknown threats from executing, such as malware, viruses, spyware and zero-day threats
• Controlling and monitoring the flow of inbound and outbound data
• Safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive data on desktops
• Protecting against network and desktop security breaches where confidential data could be exposed to fraud
• Providing a detailed audit trail of all device and application execution attempts, by tracking data that is copied to and from removable devices and by controlling what data is allowed to be copied to a device at the file level

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