Imation has announced new functionality for their Defender Collection software suite. New tools allow for central management, PC-based removable storage management, storage device management and encryption.
Imation has announced new functionality for their Defender Collection software suite. New tools allow for central management, PC-based removable storage management, storage device management and encryption.
Central management enhancements include the addition of forensic-level auditing and reporting at the file level for compliance. The new remote kill function allows for disabling devices that have been lost or stolen, and distributed provisioning allows for management and configuration of multiple devices in remote locations. Defender Collection Control Server also manages other secure storage products and devices, including Defender Collection optical media.
PC-based, device-level management enhancements include the ability to define what types of removable storage can be used, or blocked, on a given personal computer, allowing IT and security officers to prevent data theft and avoid viruses on USB flash, optical, removable hard disk, flash memory cards and even MP3 players.
Defender Collection Control Client will also have the capability to define how removable storage devices can be used, granting full access, read-only, or forced encryption, giving administrators the flexibility to grant or deny access to specific files without affecting access to other files on the device. In addition, Control Client software will include functionality to control the types of files that can be copied to removable storage devices, either by all or part of the file name or file extension, and administrators will have the ability to deploy antivirus or force a scan prior to reading any removable storage device.
The Defender Collection software was released in 2010 and is part of a series of compatible hardware from Imation.
