The release of DeviceLock 6.4 has been announced by a worldwide leader in endpoint device control, DeviceLock, Inc. With this release DeviceLock adds true file type detection and filtering--the first deep data analysis feature built atop its new content processing engine. DeviceLock 6.4 can intercept peripheral device read/write operations, perform analysis of the entire digital content in real-time and enforce applicable file-type-based security policies, this being just one more control that DeviceLock customers can establish to cost-effectively maintain complete management over the context of local communications on their corporate endpoints. In addition, true file types can now be used as a parameter for DeviceLock data shadowing policies, thus increasing the level of granularity and flexibility of controls.

Director of Sales-Americas, David Matthiesen, declared: "DeviceLock 6.4 with its new content processing engine is a big step forward." He added: "In contrast to alternate approaches, such as detecting file types using easy-to-forge file extensions or checking just a limited number of bytes from file headers, DeviceLock accurately identifies file types from their binary signatures by analyzing the entire set of data contained in the file. This method is not vulnerable to file encapsulation and other concealment techniques that defeat competitive approaches."

Being extensible to add new types as requested by customers, DeviceLock's true file type detection and filtering capability currently detects around 3800 known file types. It is also not limited to file filtering operations within just Windows Explorer. No files of that type can be moved from a user's computer to removable media, regardless of which application or process initiated the request if permission for a given file type is set to 'block' for managed device types.