Introduction

The cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, and managing your storage is an integral part of your cybersecurity strategy. Whether you access a network share, local folder, or USB drive, every space has the potential to be compromised by cybercriminals. You will need to develop a proactive defence strategy, protecting your storage devices from bad actors. Storage Control plays an indispensable role in protecting your organisation. 

What is Storage Control?

Storage Control not only offers standard “USB Blocker”, but granular policy-driven protection for your local folders, network shares, and external storage devices. With default deny at its core, Storage Control’s granular policies configuration to allow or deny access to storage based on the user, time window, applications, and more. These granular policies could be as simple as blocking USBs, or as detailed as blocking access to your backup share except when being accessed by your backup application.

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Why is Storage Control Important?

Cybercriminals number one goal is to go after your data; whether they want to steal it, destroy it, or encrypt it for ransom. StorageControl is the ultimate defensive layer of protection for your storage devices, acting as a zero trust barrier that prevents anyone and anything, including ransomware, from gaining access to your data storage. On top of its proactive defence policies, Storage Control also provides in-depth audits that inform you of who or what tried to access your storage. Keeping a full record of who viewed your data, moved it, or edited it.

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Conclusion

Storage Control is a policy driven, data access control solution that allows you to see everything that happens to all your files at any given moment. Helping control access to your data and system files and preventing unauthorised access.

Personos can help you implement Storage Control as part of the Endpoint Privilege and Application Control management solution , please contact us for more information.

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