• Allow, disable, or restrict read and write access to external ports, including USB, FireWire, PCMCIA, Secure Digital, parallel, and serial.

• Restrict data transfer activity for storage devices, including removable storage devices, external hard disks, optical media, floppy drives and tape drives

• Shadow, monitor, alert, report and query for port/device connections, usage, network connections and file transfers

• Enforce wireless connection control, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and IrDA connections

• Discover and mitigate unauthorised transfer of data

• Decrease risks associated with the loss or leakage of trade secrets, intellectual property and private information

• Safeguard critical data by ensuring only authorized transfer of files to approved portable devices and portable media

• Specify file types allowed to be read/written to devices

• Provide logging and auditing

• Control connections to untrusted or insecure access points

• Prevent wired-to-wireless LAN bridging