Utimaco SafeGuard Easy 4.40.3.53

The ultimate PC security solution – for both in the office and on the move

Personal computers often contain personal data, confidential and company information or other sensitive data.

The danger caused by the theft of notebooks should not be underestimated. Highly sensitive client information on a sales representative’s notebook could fall into the hands of a competitor, resulting in serious damage for the company.

SafeGuard Easy is the ideal way to safeguard against such risks without spending too much time on implementing security measures.

How does SafeGuard Easy protect workstations against unauthorized access? The program’s most important security features are its drive encryption and boot protection, which are used to prevent access to a workstation via an external data medium.

The biggest benefits of SafeGuard Easy are that the program

• simply but effectively protects the confidentiality of stored data
  
• can be implemented quickly
  
• is very user-friendly
  
• offers a security concept suitable for many different application
  areas.

SafeGuard Easy is easy to install. For this reason, it is particularly well suited for stand-alone systems and mobile units such as notebooks.

Benefits:

• One-time deployment of SafeGuard Easy on all PCs and notebooks guarantees the easy enforcement of company-wide security policy
  
• Full data encryption provides comprehensive IT security and safeguards against unauthorized access
  
• No additional cost for data erasing or hard disk destruction in case of sale or return of leased devices

Encryption
SafeGuard Easy uses online encryption to protect the confidentiality of data that is stored on hard disks, floppy disks and removable media in a simple and effective manner. Here, "online" means that the data is decrypted, when it is read and loaded into RAM, and then automatically encrypted again when it is saved. The key is not saved on the hard disk or PC. It is determined again, from the user’s SafeGuard Easy password, each time the PC is switched on.

SafeGuard Easy encrypts not only the entire contents of hard disks, but also the contents of removable media such as floppy disks, ZIP or JAZ disks or USB memory sticks. This allows secure data medium exchange to be implemented within the company, while simultaneously protecting the contents of mobile data media against unauthorized access. It also provides an effective way of preventing the unauthorized importing of data such as unlicensed software or viruses via removable media, since users without the appropriate authorization cannot use plain text media.

Different algorithms can be selected to encrypt floppy disks, removable media and the individual partitions on hard disks. The algorithms that can be used for this purpose include AES, Rijndael, XOR, STEALTH-40, IDEA, BLOWFISH, DES and 3DES.

Access control with Pre-Boot Authentication (PBA) and boot protection
Pre-Boot Authentication is an additional central security function in SafeGuard Easy. PBA ensures that only the SafeGuard Easy user who is registered on the system can log onto it.


When the hard disk is encrypted, any attempt to boot the computer from another data medium, such as a system floppy disk, a CD-ROM or another hard disk, will fail: the hard disk remains blocked. In fact, this means that the system actually does boot, but it is not possible to read the encrypted data on the hard disk.

When PBA is implemented on a workstation along with the Boot protection option, the workstation cannot been booted with an external data medium unless the user knows the correct SafeGuard Easy user data.

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