Secure Devices
Effective security tools and policies must be device agnostic. Legitimate or illegitimate access may be requested from any device - from a smartphone to a shopping mall kiosk. At the device layer, the enterprise security system must anticipate all these device requests, recognise them, and respond with the appropriate action.
The device is also typically the point at which users store the data that needs to be secured - for example a laptop PC will contain valuable database information as well as a wealth of password and profile data. This leads to a variety of security threats:
- Theft of data from the device
- Theft of device
- Virus attacks
- Intrusion attacks
- Theft of corporate assets by staff
Armadillo solves key device access and security issues via a number of methods:
- Token authentication to provide users with one-time, unique access IDs that are requested by the network before data access is allowed
- Encryption of user data at the device level to ensure that key information is non-recoverable to thieves or hackers and to ensure that the integrity of security policies are maintained
- Digital 'personas' or biometric recognition to authenticate users at the physical level though methods such as fingerprint recognition
- End point management solutions to ensure that any device, connecting from any point, runs the correct patches, intrusion prevention, firewall and antivirus software before being granted access to enterprise resources
