iPass Device Protection Online: Beef Up Security—the Easy, Affordable Way

No doubt about it—the number of threats facing mobile systems and the confidential information stored on them has skyrocketed. Notebooks have become a key driver for business productivity and profitability. As a result, more mobile systems than ever are on the street, and both amateur hackers and corporate criminals are taking advantage of these easy targets to steal or destroy the enterprise's intellectual assets.

Small and midsize businesses are especially feeling the pinch, as they can scarcely afford a security breach, yet the cost and complexity of the typical security suite is beyond their means. It's the old cliché of being caught between a rock and a hard place.

Keep the Rock, Lose the Hard Place
What you need is rock-solid security that's not hard to afford or implement. Welcome to Device Protection Online, the new security service hosted by iPass that adds muscle to your mobility strategy. Device Protection Online is the only hosted solution based on the industry-leading Symantec Sygate Enterprise Protection (SSEP) security platform—so you get unmatched security for your local, remote and mobile systems wherever they are. And you avoid the up-front hardware and license expenses as well as the ongoing headaches of a traditional self-managed deployment.

For one low monthly subscription fee, iPass Device Protection Online provides boot-to-shutdown security for all your endpoint mobile devices, including:

• Internet lockdown: At system boot, restricts Internet usage to trusted servers and applications
• USB port control: Blocks transfer of data to unauthorized removable media devices such as memory drives, DVDs and CDs that utilize USB ports
• Automatic remediation: Performs a device health check and updates the device to bring it into policy compliance, all without requiring user intervention or a VPN connection
• Application protection: Blocks rogue applications while allowing white listed applications to run normally
• Adaptive policies: Allows for implementation of different policies based on connection type, access location and device group
• Policy enforcement: Ensures that devices that do not comply to pre-defined security policies are identified, quarantined and remediated every time they request an Internet connection
• Web-based policy management: Allows IT staff to easily implement centrally managed policies via a Web-based interface

You Set the Policies, We Do the Heavy Lifting
Device Protection Online requires no new infrastructure on your side because it leverages our secure, highly available Global Data Centers for policy management. Simply install the agent on your desktops and laptops—you can even use iPass Device Management to create an automatic installation package—and iPass takes care of the rest. That means complete security for your endpoints and their network connections.

What it doesn't mean is giving up control over your own security policies. Your administrator can log in to the Web-based iPass policy management console and choose the security policies to be enforced for your devices. iPass helps you get started by providing a sample policy template that can be duplicated and adapted to meet your needs. Customize your own policies by location and device group to provide fine-grained control over and enforcement of firewall functionality, host integrity, operating system hardening, USB port control, application white-listing and more.

Strength and Unity
iPass Device Protection Online is part of the iPass mobility platform that unifies the management of remote and mobile connectivity and devices. Device Protection is integrated with the iPass Mobile Office and iPass Device Management services, providing a holistic, best-of-breed solution for connectivity, systems management and policy enforcement from one trusted vendor.

A Bouncer for USB Ports
A USB port can open the door to problems as well as productivity. iPass Device Protection Online is like having a bouncer at the door to keep any potential problems out.

Your administrator can create policies with different rights and privileges in the office, at home or at remote locations. For example, a location-dependent policy could prevent a user from saving data onto a removable drive, while still allowing read access to files on the drive. You can also block any non-corporate USB device.

Best-of-breed protection without the management hassles and the exorbitant expense of traditional solutions. What could be easier? Learn more.