Copy Protect Your Files & Creative Material
Posted: Wednesday, June 16, 2010
by Mark Neil
Data security, privacy, software development
Copy protection is a security step or action to protect your intellectual property, printable files and documents from copying, plagiarism, piracy, illegal distribution and stealing. Copy protection is the process of protecting all the text based files and documents, files which you have saved in image based formats like tiff, jpg, bmp from getting copied, plagiarized and illegally distributed. It provides complete protection to all printable files and documents.
The easiest way found till date to illegally copy data is by the use of a small storage device. It is the convenient way as no one would ever know that who has copied the data in his removable device. Portable storage devices like USB drive, memory card, CDs and DVDs are indisputably very helpful, but at the same time they can also be used to upload malicious codes to your computer (either intentionally or accidentally), or to copy confidential information from your computer and take it away.
Imagine how easy would it be for a person to take his small-sized flash drive and plug it into your computer and start copying all your data. Although removable devices are small enough in their size but the storage capacity is quite gigantic. A thumb sized USB drive can hold up to 2GBs or even more data in it, a round shape CD disk allows you to write or burn MBs or even GBs of data on it.
Anyone who is not allowed to dig up your company's information can copy all your business details, customers' information and sales reports to his CD without any effort; and sell it to your competitors. You can imagine this would unquestionably cost you money and damage your business. No one would like to face such situation and therefore, it is important to prevent such type of data leakage.
Device Block is an exceptional data security software that allows you to block all types of unauthorized portable devices and drives from accessing your computer. The program lets you decide which type of devices can access your computer. A password prompt will appear every time an unauthorized device is plugged into the computer where Device Block is installed. Access would only be allowed if a valid password is entered.
Device Block maintains a list of authorized devices and their usage so that whenever any authorized device is plugged in, you will not be prompted to enter password and that device will get full access to your computer, furthermore it maintain at what time that particular device was authorized and maintains a log of its usage for the purpose of monitoring.
Device Block is the perfect way to block unauthorized USB drives, memory sticks, CDs, DVDs and other media and Blu-ray discs from accessing and copying your data. It comes with many other security features like Data Leak Prevention, Hack Attempt Monitoring, Safe Mode protection, Stealth Mode, Authorize List option and Logs and Reports of Devices and many more
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)I just read another article of yours, and commented that I would use this for my writing!
Thank you Jennifer for your appreciation. I write article to create awareness about the latest development in the field of Information Technology. If you like my article, you can use it in your writing provided you don;t make nay amendment in the reference link as they are important for my readers who are looking for the relevant information.
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