Don’t let an unsecure flash drive cause business disruption, productivity loss, revenue loss, and fines.

Recent events in the news have demonstrated the ease with which portable devices can be used to steal confidential data.

Avoid your own personal Wikileaks by securing your USB flash drives.  Kanguru’s secure flash drives and remote management capabilities provide excellent protection against data leaks.

The Kanguru Defender Elite coupled with Kanguru Remote Management Console (KRMC) give CIO’s and CISO’s an unprecedented level of control over their flash drives.  Data breaches can be prevented with features such as:

Remote Disable/Delete - Remotely disable or delete devices compromised by rogue employees to protect sensitive information and prevent data breaches.

Domain/IP Control - Restrict drive usage to approved domains & IP ranges and prevent unauthorized use in external networks.

Offline Restrictions - Control whether devices can be used offline. Prevent unauthorized use in external networks.

Auditing and Reporting - KRMC enforces a full audit trail with detailed graphical reporting and the ability to export both customizable audit logs and graphs for external analysis to ensure proper compliance.

Data Security, Financial, Government, Portable Storage

Which is more costly to a business?  Spending the money to become compliant with federally mandated security regulations or remaining noncompliant? 

A recent study by the Ponemon Institute compared the cost of complying with state and federal security regulations vs. the cost of potential business disruption, productivity loss, revenue loss, and fines.   Read more about it here.

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Courtesy of CRN.

A number of these incidents involve laptops or USB hard drives.  The rule of thumb should be:  If it’s portable, it’s easy to steal.

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Version 2.2 of the Kanguru Remote Management Console (KRMC) has a new feature that will make provisioning secure flash drives easier than ever.  Administrators can now import directly from an Active Directory database and program Kanguru flash drives in an automated fashion.  The drives will then be hard-coded with Employee data that can be tracked and logged including Name, Email and Phone Number.

While built-in encryption goes a long way towards securing your USB thumbdrives, KRMC goes a step further by providing control and accountability even after the drives have been distributed to employees.  The logging and auditing features are extremely useful for showing compliance with HIPAA, GLBA, and a wide range of state laws that are popping up across the country.

The full press release is available at the Kanguru News website.

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Last month the FTC cracked down on a mortgage company for violating the privacy rules in the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA).  A lack of information security measures is going to cost the company 10 years of audits.

Agent Genius has a good rundown on how GLBA affects financial institutions like banks, insurance companies, brokers, lenders and so on.  As the author notes, “financial institution” can be broadly interpreted.

Data encryption with the ability to log and audit should be a key part of any GLBA compliance plan.  Regulators want to see clear proof that information security policies are in place and are being enforced.

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Nate Cote, VP of Product Management, chats with BankInfoSecurity.com at RSA Conference 2009.  Nate discusses how Kanguru’s encryption and management solutions fit into the broader security and compliance architecture.

Direct link to audio.

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Kanguru will be exhibiting at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, April 20-23.  Visit us at Booth 2659 to learn more about our secure USB Flash Drives and Remote Management Console providing:

• 100% AES-Hardware encryption
• Ability to remotely delete/disable drives that are lost or stolen
• Remote management and enforcement of passwords and security policies
• Audit logs to show compliance with regulations like HIPAA, SOX, FISMA and GLBA

Attendees at RSA Conference will be dealing with budget pressures this year, but security is not an area where companies can afford to compromise.

“Given the increased threats and pressures on security, a flat budget with increased threats equals a cut budget.”

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Smaller companies often ignore or put off security concerns because their organization is not regulated by SOX or GLBA (regulations for large publicly-traded corporations).  You should be aware that even smaller companies are included in state data breach notice laws.  There’s only a handful of states left without regulations.

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