“Data protection is of the utmost importance, but companies often don’t give it the attention it deserves. High profile data breaches like the recent Nationwide example have brought data protection to the boardroom.”

—Alex Kwiatkowski, lead analyst at Datamonitor.

GuardianEdge Smartphone Protection

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Smartphone Data Loss and Data Leakage Prevention for Enterprises

Smartphones and PDAs are making your data more mobile than ever. No longer just for executives, now it seems everyone in your organization is taking Palm®, Windows® Mobile and similar devices on the road—from salespeople and field engineers corresponding with customers to accountants conducting audits.

In addition to their small size, which makes these devices more subject to loss, smartphones and PDAs are increasingly targets of sophisticated criminal attacks—and chances are they contain valuable competitive data or private and legally protected information. This puts trade secrets, source code, formulas or other key IP at risk. Loss or leakage of stored data can cause organizations to incur substantial legal fees, customer service costs, and damage to their image and brand equity.

To avoid these negative impacts, and still maintain productivity, enterprises require scalable, manageable solutions that include both data loss and data leakage protection for smartphones.

By deploying GuardianEdge Smartphone Protection, organizations can:

Manage Smartphone Protection with strong central policy control linked to Microsoft® Active Directory™ for Windows Mobile, Palm OS, and Pocket PC based devices
Encrypt key corporate data by file type on smartphones to protect that data from physical loss or theft, while allowing employees to continue to use their personal applications
Keep data from leaking off of smartphones by controlling via policy
- The ports that data can be moved through
- The devices that data can be moved to
- The software that is allowed to run on the Smartphone
- The protection status of the device before it is allowed to connect to the corporate email server
Protect from device security threats with firewall, WiFi NAC and other connection controls
Manage devices and assist users with a full, easy to use, over-the-air (OTA) support environment including:
- Help desk
- Software deployment
- Password and device recovery
- Policy deployment and updates

GuardianEdge Smartphone Protection safeguards key intellectual property and private, sensitive or legally protected data on smartphones.

Enterprise-class Management –
- Delivers Microsoft® Active Directory™ integrated administration and standardization of cross-platform device access policies, software usage and resource capabilities
- OTA (Over-the-air) remote management components for software update, provisioning, help desk and device lock/unlock/wipe
- Detailed auditing and reporting for compliance and usage

Data Loss Prevention –
- Provides strong, file level encryption to secure sensitive data and provide legal safe harbor from disclosure requirements in the event of loss of the device or externally connected media
- Data protection policies make it easy for the enterprise to protect critical information, while concurrently allowing for personal use of the devices
Data Leakage Prevention –
- Employs port and device policy based controls for connecting to devices, networks and resources on the smartphone
- Software image locking ensures that only appropriate, trusted and approved applications execute on the device
- Network firewall protects against mal-ware and other threats
- Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync™ access control ensures that Smartphones meet policy requirements before connecting to email

Encryption

FIPS 140-2 validated encryption (AES 128/196/256 and Triple DES)
Administrator configured, policy controlled encryption by data types: Outlook (email, contacts, tasks, calendar), Word, Excel, PDF, Docs to go
Data on the phone
Data on SD cards
Shared key encryption option for groups available
Digitally encrypt and sign email messages

Authentication

Controlled by policy
Password based

Device, port and access control

Port control: USB, serial, SD card
Access control: Bluetooth, WiFi enable / disable, WiFi NAC control, Infrared, Camera
Resource access control: IR, camera, voice recording

Device security

Trusted application architecture prohibits unauthorized applications from accessing data
Blacklist prohibits execution of specific applications
Firewall control: IP traffic, email, IM, Web-browsing, SMS/MMS
Lock application profile on device
Data wipe by device inactivity time and password failure threshold (also OTA from console)
Application specific passwords

User self-service portal