DeviceLock, Inc reported that the iPhone local synchronisation filtering technology built into DeviceLock 6.4.1 controls local data transfers between Apple’s new iPad and DeviceLock-protected endpoint computers.
DeviceLock customers are able to define and enforce permissions for this new tablet computer with the same flexibility and granularity already applied to iPhone and iPod touch mobile devices, as well as other types of smartphones, PDAs, and removable storage gadgets.
“DeviceLock customers already have the enforcement technology in place to protect themselves from users locally copying sensitive data from a Windows endpoint to an iPad and from the loss of control over that data should the iPad user then store or send it to destinations that are even further outside the protected confines of the corporate network,” said Ashot Oganesyan, DeviceLock CTO and Founder. “The iPad is positioned as a digital book reader, video player, and gaming platform. But, with its bigger screen, keyboard, and a well-funded application development community, iPad buyers are equipped to not just consume content, but to create content ? and for knowledge workers that means to work. However, the IT security impacts need to be taken into consideration and policy set with regard to iPad use. DeviceLock can easily be configured to enforce accepted-use policies for local data communications with iPad by using the ‘iPhone’-related configuration controls in any DeviceLock v6.4.1 administration console. It delivers an unprecedented level of completeness and quality of local synchronisation control.”
DeviceLock’s patent-pending local synchronisation filtering technology gives security administrators the ability to centrally control which types of data specified users or their groups are allowed to synchronise between corporate computers and locally connected iPads, iPhones and iPods. DeviceLock also can recognise and filter numerous data object types for the iTunes protocol, thus empowering administrators to selectively allow or block synchronisation of files, email accounts, contacts, tasks, notes, calendar items, bookmarks, and various media types.
