Prevent v2 - Data protection - Restrict cut, copy, paste, delete

Prevent v2 - Data Protection Tool for Windows 7/8/10

Prevent v2 is a paid tool built for Windows 7/8/10 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2010. Prevent v2 is the advanced version of Prevent tool. It can secure all the data from being modified/deleted, in other words it restrict other user from playing with the user sensitive data. Below are the primary functions which Prevent provides.

Prevent is helpful for Pharma companies, it allows them to easily enforce the policy for instrument system data integrity.

Basic System Operations:

• Restrict user from using "cut" operation
• Restrict user from using "copy" operation
• Restrict user from using "paste" operation
• Restrict user from using "delete" operation
• Restrict user from using "shift+delete" operation
• Restrict user from using "rename" operation

Keyboard Operations:

• Restrict keyboard operation "CTRL+C"
• Restrict keyboard operation "CTRL+X"
• Restrict keyboard operation "CTRL+V

Context Menu Operations:

• Restrict right click context menu "cut" operation
• Restrict right click context menu "copy" operation
• Restrict right click context menu "paste" operation
• Restrict right click context menu "delete" operation
• Restrict right click context menu "rename" operation
• Restrict right click context menu "open with" operation
• Restrict right click context menu "open with..." operation

Advanced Features Introduced: (Improvements from Prevent v1)

The Major operation which Prevent do are covered in introduction section, some of the advanced features which are included in Prevent are listed below. These features are described in detail, click on each of the feature to learn more about them

• User Tracking
• Folder Tracking
• Reporting
• Auto start up -  (on multiple user request)
• Start/Pause
• Restrict Drag and Drop - (on multiple user request)
• Command Prompt - restricted
• Powershell - restricted
• Restrict right click context menu "Copy To" operation
• Restrict right click context menu "Move To" operation
• Restrict right click context menu "Send To" operation
• On double clicking folder rename option is disabled

1. User Tracking (custom enhanced)

Once the Prevent is launched it automatically starts its user tracking mechanism. What basically it does is, it creates a log of all the users added/deleted from a particular system in a PDF file - "Tracking Report"

User don't have to manually start this tracking, this is enabled by default. If you open "Local Users and Groups" by typing "lusrmgr.msc" (without quotes) in command prompt or Run windows you will get below screen, wherein you can create new user Groups, add users to group, delete users from group and delete Group.

Current version of Prevent can report below changes-

1. New group created
2. New user added to a group
3. User deleted from a group

User groups

2. Folder Tracking (custom enhanced)

Like User Tracking, folder tracking is also an integral part of Prevent design. The necessity of folder tracking arrives at the moment, when user want to deliberately make some changes in the system for instance, delete a file/folder, rename, or want to use cut/copy/paste operation. However in these times also when Prevent is in PAUSED state, user can track the changes of 5 of it's most sensitive folder.

Once you PAUSE Prevent, all the system operations became active again, "but" Prevent is still tracking your most sensitive folders. So whatever changes has been made while Prevent is paused will be logged into "Tracking Report" PDF

Please Note: The PDF will only track activities from the predefined 5 folders only, activities done in others folder will not be tracked. You can set the folders for tracking by using Track Folders screen in Prevent.

Folder Tracking

3. Reporting (custom enhanced)

Though the primary feature of Prevent is to restrict users from modifying data, it however allows users to "PAUSE" or temporarily stop this functionality, but during this period it tracks folders for users activity in few of the predefined folders. Apart from it, user tracking also runs simultaneously, meaning any change in user group or addition of new user etc will also get recorded in a pdf file.

You can read into detail about reporting by Clicking on below links

• User Tracking
• Folder Tracking

You can set the location of the PDF file by using Reports screen in Prevent.

Reports

System requirements:

1. Windows 7 and above
2. Windows Server 2003 and above
3. Java 1.7 and above
4. JDK 1.7 and above (if installed)
5. Minimum space requirement of 25MB in C drive

Compatibility:

Prevent v2 is compatible with both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows