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Encryption and Security for Mobile Devices

Protect data on mobile devices, and free your mobile workforce without compromising security

Mobile devices bring productivity to our business lives and fun to our personal lives, and, more and more, those two areas are overlapping. Because many mobile devices—phones, USB storage, and netbooks, to name a few—are not under IT management, they are not covered by company-wide security controls that prevent data loss. That means corporate data often walks out the door in a pocket to get lost at a soccer game or left in a taxi. Even managed devices like laptops usually need stronger controls, such as mandatory encryption or policies that ensure safe network access. The challenge is introducing and maintaining adequate control, without weighing down your users or making your IT world so complex that your protections become shelfware.

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Overview:

Our technology-neutral solutions work together to protect all portable data storage devices, such as laptops, USB drives, PDAs, smartphones, CDs, DVDs, external hard drives, and imaging devices. Choose the protections you need, and implement them separately or together:
  • Extensive encryption options, from centrally managed McAfee Encrypted USB devices to file and folder encryption, whole disk and device encryption, virtual folders, and more
  • Endpoint and device controls that let you define what devices can connect to your network and what data can be moved to these devices
  • Policy-based restrictions over email users download or send, whether they are connected over cellular, Wi-Fi, or local area networks
  • Anti-malware built just for mobile devices to scan, detect, and clean mobile data to prevent corruption from viruses, worms, battery-sapping malware, and other threats

Key Benefits

  • Maximize mobile flexibility and security—Allow your workforce to use mobile devices and removable storage without compromising the security that protects your enterprise. Ensure malware on mobile devices won't steal data, infect your network, or otherwise disrupt your business.
  • Protect data and enhance workflow with strong, transparent, automatic encryption—Encrypt mobile devices and removable storage without end-user action to save time and reduce trouble—and to ensure that confidential and regulated information is protected from loss, theft, and unauthorized access.
  • Control incoming and outgoing data—Define which portable devices can connect to your network and which data can be moved to these portable devices. Centrally manage policies and track devices. You can even remotely manage security and data on McAfee Encrypted USB devices so users in the field can regain access if they've forgotten passwords.
  • Reduce the threat of infection with email controls—Place restrictions over the email that users can download or send, whether they are connected over cellular, Wi-Fi, or local area networks.
  • Stop malicious code in its tracks—Count on our anti-malware measures—built just for mobile devices—to scan, detect, and clean mobile data to block viruses, worms, and other threats. You may pre-install or download anti-malware to devices in the field, then update signatures over the air to maintain protections.
  • Prove encryption on lost or stolen mobile devices—Demonstrate that devices were properly encrypted before they disappeared, making their data inaccessible and their loss a non-event for compliance.
  • Enhance efficiency and lower costs with a centralized management platform—Speed incident response and cut operational costs when you implement, enforce, monitor, manage, and audit your organization's security policy and all of its components from McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, our web-based management console.

Products and Services:

Products

McAfee Device Control—Regulate the use of removable media on your network

McAfee Endpoint Encryption—Prevent data loss using powerful encryption and strong access control

McAfee Encrypted USB—Secure USB storage—avoid a moving liability

McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention—Don't expect users to become security experts with your sensitive data

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Learn more about how McAfee mobile security solutions can help keep your mobile workforce agile, and your portable data secure.