For every company data security is a challenge. Recently Mcafee did a survey with the help of MSI international in Australia, Canada, China ,France, Germany, India, Spain, UK, USA for various aspects. Data security breach was one of the point in this survey. As per this survey 71% mid-size organizations think there is some chance a serious data breach could put them out of business and 40% of organizations met data loss issues due to breach in data security and the data was very crucial like information about customers, employees and partners.
Hope now you got very clear idea, that how important is a data security part for any company? Every company is always either in search of the proper product or they might be using any one of data security product as per the company security policy requirement.
Here I would like to share the benefits of Mcafee End point Encryption (EEPC & EEFF), considering you have basic information about encryption applications. Earlier this product name was safe boot. With the help of this product you can have very good kind of end point data security. Windows xp 32 bit(SP3) , Vista 32 as well as 64 bit and Win7 32-64 bit platforms supports this application. Basically this product comes with three parts.
- End point Encryption Manager (EEM): This part helps you to administer clients from server and other two following modules (EEPC & EEFF) are part of this administrative console. By using this EEM console, you can create safe boot users, groups. Can create installation sets of End point Encryption for pc (EEPC), End point Encryption for Files and Folders (EEFF) to install it on clients. You can create different –different installation sets and policies as per your security policy requirements. You can also create a policy by which any plugged removable device will get encrypted and the data inside the device can be accessible to key users only. You can sync EEM with AD (Active Directory) so that you need not to create users and can import users from AD. This will help to reduce your administrative task.
- End point Encryption for PC (EEPC): We can say EEPC as a one module in EEM. With the help of this you can restrict access to particular user(s) to system(s). You can encrypt particular drive(s) with the help of EEPC policy. Once you encrypt the drive(s) it will not be accessible to other user(s), who don’t have appropriate keys. As administrator can sync EEM with AD so, he/she can have a benefits of single authentication skim of EEPC. In this user need not to enter password twice- thrice. One at safe boot login, one at windows login, and one at EEFF login. In this case user will just be authenticated in safe boot login and need not to pass other two authentication modes. This policy administrator can use as per company security policy. But my experience is it is better to keep it thrice, if you are using other data security products also e.g. DLP (Data loss Prevention) or you if administrator would like to have user based policies.
- End point Encryption for Files and Folders (EEFF): This is also a module of EEM. With the help of this, you can encrypt files with particular extension e.g. .doc, .xls, etc. You can set a policy through which any files, folders created in particular folder will get encrypt by default, you can also have policy through which any file having particular extension and running in particular application will get encrypt by default e.g. If you would like to encrypt all the files created in Microsoft Word then you need to consider two things one windord.exe as application and .doc or .docx as an extension. Once you configure such type of policy then files created in Microsoft word will be in encrypted format only. This works in local drive as well as on share drives or network storage.
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