BLACKbox Feature Focus Series – Happy Hours

We are continuing this FFS (Feature Focus Series) written by our product development team. Today, we are explaining Happy Hours as a signature proprietary feature of BLACKbox, and we will see how necessary it is for Enterprises.

Let us first understand the problem. Internet is a resource for an enterprise. Users need it for Business Development, Research, Compliance, Regulatory Filings. At the same time, the Internet can prove to be an easy loophole leading to Data Theft or Leakage. It is like a double edge sword. You can read further or check this video.

Internet Usage Policy Challenges

If we control users’ Internet access by allowing a limited number of websites, we protect data from theft or leakage. But we deprive the users of using the Internet as a powerful resource. If we allow users with unrestricted Internet access, we allow users to use the full prowess of the Internet. But we compromise on data security, and users can easily leak or steal the data. Either of the above strategies does not help solve the problem. We want our users to access the uncontrolled Internet, and at the same time, we want to protect the data from leakage or theft. Happy Hours is the answer to this complex problem.

Feature Focus on Happy Hours

It is an out-of-the-box feature. It lets the user decide when to access unrestricted Internet for Business Development, Research, or Downloading the Data.

It works like this. When the user is working on the enterprise data, access to the Internet is limited to specifically allowed websites. When the user needs to visit websites that are not allowed, she can start the “Happy Hours” session from the BLACKbox endpoint software agent on the laptop or desktop.

By doing so, it removes all the restrictions applied to Internet access. The user can freely access the Internet, download the data, and use the Internet as a powerful resource. While the user is inside the “Happy Hours” session, the BLACKbox endpoint agent unmounts all the enterprise data drives from BLACKbox. It prevents the user from uploading the data to personal google drives, dropbox, personal email ids, etc. The user can download the data.

When the user exits the “Happy Hours” session, the Internet access is limited to specific websites, and it mounts the enterprise data drives from BLACKbox. Please note, the downloaded data will be available outside of the “Happy Hours” session.

This feature helps strike a perfect balance between allowing unrestricted Internet as a resource and data leakage prevention over the Internet.

With the BLACKbox on your side, you can smartly solve such complex problems.

This is one of the 50 discerning features of BLACKbox, which solves a genuine problem, breaks the notion about how deleted data can be recovered.