inDefend is a windows application which helps you protect your data from unauthorized, copy, share or transfer through internet, email, chat and portable media devices.

You  can request for a free beta trial for inDefend from the following link:-
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Installation

Once you have downloaded the installer, the installer will take you to the following screen.

There are two password settings : inDefend access password and administrator password. The access password is used to authorize access for a particular portable media devices connected through usb port or sd card slot and access to particular website or application like chat , ftp etc.

The administrator password is used to gain access to the control center of inDefend where you can go through the summary of recently accessed websites, devices and files copied on portable media devices. Control center also gives you access to settings and configuration.

Summary

Application Control

Application control tab control center helps you configure which application needs to be communicating to the internet such as antivirus and browser updates and windows updates etc. It can also be used to allow certain applications like skype, gtalk  etc to connect to the internet. All you need to do is to locate the application by using the search box available at the top and then clicking on the checkbox.

Special Application Settings

Special application settings is important for proper functioning of laplock, specially if you want to allow a specific list of websites to be accessed on you machine. In order to configure the browser, you need to select the location of the main exe of the browser you want to allow and then click on add. For example, you are using firefox, the location will be program files full path/ forefox.exe.  For configuring anti-virus you should select the executable(s) of the antivirus which connects to the internet. If you are not able to figure out the antivirus location, do not worry. Just wait for the notifier to come up in the bottom right section of you screen. This will happen whenever you antivirus tries to update itself. Click on unblock, then select the antivirus from the checkbox and the category as antivirus and click on add application.

Blocking Porn, Messaging and Chat Clients etc

Whenever an unauthorized application tries to make a connection you will see a notification in the bottom right corner of your screen as follows. If you want to allow it, click on unblock and select the application from a list and its category as application and click on add. From that point onwards, the application will be able to connect to the internet. If you do not do any thing, all kinds of messaging and chat clients will be blocked by inDefend .

USB Control

USB Devices control panel in the inDefend’s control center helps you manage the authorized devices on your system. It also helps you set default policy for unauthorized devices and set device specific policies for each of the authorized devices as follows:-

If you face any problem in installing or using inDefend please contact our support team at support@dataresolve.com.

Please make sure that you enter a valid email address because,  your email address will be used for receiving email alerts in case of an unauthorized  usb access and will also be used for verification in case you forget your control panel password.

Once you have filled all the fields, click on submit, you will see the following:-

Click on yes if you want email alerts of unauthorized USB access on your system, otherwise click No. You will be able to set it back to yes from your control panel later.

Restart you machine. Your uHook protection should be active after the restart, which will be indicated by an orange icon in your system tray as show below:-

The trial version will expire after 50 USB protections, but since the trial version is fully functional just like the full version, it will give you a good idea about the product before you make a purchase.

Yes, we are talking about your sales force, support team, partners and other business travelers of your organization. It was alright when they just used to work on physical papers. In fact, it was even alright when you had few low end phones and desktops. Because, they can not carry the desktops everywhere they go and the low end mobile phones can not store data. So, really never had the risk of data loss!

But, what about now?
Technology and competition to build better products have given rise to a number of devices which makes a business network more efficient and productive. Last decade saw a significant improvements in laptop designs, smaller version of laptops, netbooks, smart phones and PDAs and will continue to do so with evolving technology. But, regarding the increased risk of data loss, this was not a very big problem as security companies offered a wide range of solutions.
You can set up a lot of IT security solutions to make sure that confidential business data is safe. You have IDS (to prevent from external intrusion), you have got firewalls (to protect your network from hackers and prevent insiders from having unauthorized access to malicious websites or IPs), then, there are antivirus solutions on gateways and endpoints. Businesses have also started implementing DLP (Data Loss Prevention) or also called as Endpoint Security to protect their data from theft or loss. DRM (digital rights management) or IRM(Information rights managements) offers security to your data against unauthorized copy or share.

The advantage of better devices was equally shared by the business travelers of a company. A physical business network has its own security infrastructure and the protection of data can be handled easily.
But, think about those laptops and PDAs etc which go out of your office.

What is the real problem with Mobile workforce using laptops and other portable devices to support business?
1. You can not enforce centralized policies because they do not belong to the physical business network once they are out
2. Mobile workforce has to carry some data as they need to support the business
3. High end mobile devices and PDAs are used to send and receive emails and also contains business critical information

Some of the sophisticated VPN solutions are used today in order to force the employees to connect through the company’s gateway, but that doesn’t guarantee that data is secure. There are a number of technical explanations to support this fact (for example a personal can reboot on to a live disc and then copy or transfer the file) but, you can secure it by implementing full disk encryption.

With all kinds of products and solutions, you always have an option of building your own list of products you need. But, we believe that data protection for mobile workforce has to be redesigned and the solution which have been built to support a physical business network can not help fully achieve the solution completely.

Feel free to drop in your comments to make this discussion better!

This white paper explains how you can use  the enterprise version of uHook to solve the problem of data loss through portable media devices but, at the same time not disturbing your own advantage of using USB ports for your business efficiency and productivity.

uHook Enterprise is an endpoint device control product for windows, which helps you control and manage the access of removable media devices on thousands of PCs in your business network distributed over the globe from one single place!

uHook Enterprise is meant for organizations with a big network infrastructure, where it is not possible to track who is copying what or who has got access to critical files and data.

Here are some of the benefits you can achieve with this product

	Control and monitor device access activities at different location of the globe sitting in one place
	Protect your data and prevent malicious users with strong ACTIVE EPS technology
	Scale up to thousands of machines within a very short time
	No complex deployments and server installations are required
	Unlimited storage of reports and policies
	Get instant email alerts of malicious activities
	256-Bit SSL encrypted access to web based management console
	Optional SaaS based server control
	On demand agent deployment – pay as you grow
	No need for dedicated server or appliance installation in house
	Manage physically located offices from one single admin console
	Block viruses, spyware, trojans, rootkits and malware from infecting your computers from alien portable stoarge devices
	Regular updates of server and agents so that you stay secure and updated

1. Selectively allow or block access to any kind of internet application, website or email. For example you can allow facebook, but you can block some other site from being accessed through one single click.

2. Selectively allow or block chat or VoIP(voice over IP) or chat (IM) application to be used. You can allow them when you want or just disallow whenever you need.

3. Set specific policies on removable media devices to be used on your laptop, for example you can allow you memory stick to be used but block others. Similar control can be put on other media devices like external hard drives, cell phones with memory cards , digit photo frames etc

4. But, the most interesting feature of LappyGuard is that you can silently monitor what is being access (like website, emails etc) , what kind of media devices being used including what files were copied on them. All these details are presented in a nice report through the control panel of LappyGuard , which is password protected from access, so that only you can view those reports!

5. Tamper protection and uninstall protection allows you to block anyone who wants to uninstall the application without authorization.

Thank you!