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I came across this the other day and thought it was a pretty interesting concept. DeviceLock is software from Smartline (www.devicelock.com) which allows administrators to deny access to I/O access to USB, Bluetooth, FireWire and other peripheral ports to prevent unauthorized copying of information to storage devices. It’s for Windows XP and integrates into Active Directory and Group Policy to allow centralized management.
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| Posted on: | January 29, 2006 |
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We purchased DeviceLock but ran into issues as it did not scale very well and was a pain to manage. We ended up switching over to DeviceWall (www.devicewall.com) last month, due to its auditing features which better met our technical requirements, it also seemed much easier to deploy and administer.
devicewall is the weakest product in the category. it can’t be compared with devicelock.
may be for unexperienced users it is easier to install devicewall but not for admins of large networks.
deviewall can’t be managed via group policy in active directory. it requires its own server to deploy policies. instead of the third-party servers, devicelock uses active directoryfor the deployment.
moreover, devicewall doesn’t support white listing of usb devices. you can’t allow the certain device while blocking all others. devicewall can be disabled by users with local admins privileges while devicelock protects itself from such users.
there are a lot of other additinal features that devicewall doesn’t support. you may find a comparison review of device control solutions here:
http://www.securitybyte.com/articles/device_control_solutions.ehtml
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