Secuware Security Framework (SSF) FAQ's
What can SSF bring to my company?

SSF increases the Windows security level, ensures protection with regard to your system users and customises Windows to the requirements of your organization.

This is a product that safeguards your PC, making it a corporate worktool which can be centrally administered, guaranteeing confidentiality of information and platform stability.

Why is SSF a Security Operating System?

An Operating System's function is to make applications independent from hardware, offering a series of applications which the user can access.

SSF controls its identification devices exclusively in the Preboot stage for two reasons: firstly to protect Windows or Linux and secondly, in order to have ultimate responsibility over everything: information, operating system and applications.

The Secuware Operating System uses all its modules to identify the user by using unique technology, the fruit of many years of experience.

How does SSF protect the privacy of information?

Through its SSF Crypt2000 module the system eliminates the trails that stay behind on the PC or laptop. For example, many users think their information is safe because they are working off-line but, unfortunately, the temporary copy leaves a trail that can be accessed on the hard drive.

If the hard drive is not completely encrypted, the temporary copy is physically accessible. Something similar occurs with pagination files. The hard drive is basically full of information trails that can be physically compiled (and removed).

When a file is deleted, it is not ‘gone for ever'. The hard drive space it used to occupy is merely ‘reserved' as a space that can be re-used later. Only when the hard drive fills up are these spaces used, in order that its reliability is consistent across the board.

Hard drives today have so much capacity these ‘gaps' tend not to be filled (recuperation tools may also be used here) and are therefore full of sensitive information that the user thinks has been deleted and yet is retrievable.

Why do I need to control the execution of applications?

Because anti-virus Programs do not completely eliminate the risk of infection (they only work with known viruses), and once a virus enters a system it spreads throughout the connected computers. Furthermore, the system is a worktool and should be used as such – an organization cannot allow its workers to use it to listen to music, download illegal software, cracks, etc.

Does SSF control the information that can be sent via e-mail?

Thanks to the Supervisor module it is possible to define how an organization wishes that specific applications should function when the user gains access to sensitive information. With SSF Supervisor an organization can decide which files may or may not be sent via e-mail.

Similarly, it is possible to restrict other functions such as printing, making screen copies or copying files to other locations.