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Protect your Data with Active Sync Protector - overview


ActiveSync Protector allows you to secure your Exchange mobile ActiveSync.
Access Control - Verify user and phone match-up.
Content filtering - limit the content exiting the network to the minimum required and to workers truly requiring it by defining rule-based content filtering.
No client installation - easy to deploy and cross-platform support.
Available for ISA \ TMG \ IAG \ UAG

More and more companies encourage their employees to work with their mobile devices implementing Bring Your Own (BYO) strategy to save money and improve efficiency.
Typically the Exchange is configured to support OTA ActiveSync (Over The Air).
But from a security point of view, mobile smart phones are in fact mini computers and should be treated from a security aspect as a potential threat.

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ActiveSync Protector (filter) - Features


Content Filtering
  • 1. Configure content publishing rules according to device type and/or user AD group membership.
  • 2. Filtering Exchange content by one or more of the following objects: Mail messages, Attachments, Contacts, Tasks and calendar events.
  • 3. Allowing or blocking synchronization of attachments in mail messages or events.
  • 4. Managing white list of attachment file types.
  • 5. Filtering by words in email and calendar events subject line.
  • 6. Allowing meeting requests to be published even when mail is blocked.
  • 7. Filtering by the sender's domain name.
  • 8. Encrypted and signed mail handling.

Access Control
  • 1. Verify that user and deviceID match (Two factor authentication- TFA).
  • 2. Managing a white list of allowed users.
  • 3. Allowing or blocking by device type and/or by user's active directory group membership.
  • 4. Several enrollment options.

       ActiveSync Content Filtering


       ActiveSync Access Control

ActiveSync Protector (filter) - Use cases

  • Any organization evolved in publishing Exchange data to mobile smart phones
  • Allowing only specific groups (e.g. management) to fully retrieve data from network.
  • Allowing specific device types (phone models) to Sync.
  • Preventing attachments or internal mails from being published.
  • Verifying that only registered users can Sync.
  • Two factor Authentication requirement– assigning credentials to a specific device ID forcing the credentials to be used only from a specific phone (device ID).
  • Allowing ActiveSync for specific users only.
  • Companies using strong authentication like smart cards or tokens.

Active Sync Protector (Filter) - Mobile Access Control


The ActiveSync Protector includes several enrolment options to register the device for each user. Once the user has registered, the filter can verify during each authentication process that the user matches the device registered.

For some enrollment process- an additional web site (Mobile Access Control) is used as part of the solution.

Access control supported enrolment processes:

  •  Automatic Self Enrollment –Device ID is registered upon first use.
  •  Self-Enrollment Registration – User registers on internal site and then must Sync within a defined time frame to complete registration.
  •  Smart Card Enrollment – User creates credentials on internal site (using strong login).
  •  Admin Manual Enrollment – Admin management of user list using training mode and rejected auditing list.

In addition, the ActiveSync Protector includes an admin web site for tracking users' registration process, approving blocked usres, deleting users and more.

ActiveSync Protector registration window ActiveSync Protector registration site       

ActiveSync Protector registration site ActiveSync Protector Admin Site         
About the ActiveSync Protector (filter)

Complex networks can find that some requirements are hard or impossible to achieve using ISA/ TMG / IAG / UAG server out of the box functionality.

AGAT Software solutions have developed a unique set of solutions that enables extending ISA/ TMG / IAG / UAG functionality to solve complex architectures and requirements, typically implemented in large, complex and well secured networks.

Understanding the endless complex environments options, Microsoft has enabled to extend the functionality by developing Web filters and ISAPI filters for products as ISA / IAG and IIS.

The filters are run-time extensions that can be used for modifying and extending functionality to solve requirements that are not included in the Microsoft out of the box solution.