DeviceLock 6.4.1 also includes device presence detection, access control and logging for BlackBerry devices, the company said.

The data loss prevention software offers control for local synchronisation between DeviceLock-protected computers and popular business level smartphones such as Windows Mobile, Palm, iPhone, and BlackBerry platforms, DeviceLock said.

“There are many legitimate reasons for an employee to connect a smartphone to their office PC and run a local synchronisation for data transfer. However, anyone with an illegitimate purpose in mind, like data theft, knows that such transfers completely bypass the corporate network and cannot be controlled by network-based security solutions”, Ashot Oganesyan, DeviceLock CTO and founder said.

“An all-or-nothing approach – when all smartphones are either allowed or prohibited to sync locally with a particular computer – is too risky”, he added.

“With DeviceLock in place, organisations can impose a ‘least privilege’ mobile device policy that limits data exchanges to only specific smartphones and to only the types of data required for an employee to carry out their business duties.”

DeviceLock 6.4.1 uses local synchronisation filtering technology, which gives security administrators the ability to centrally control which types of data specified users or their groups are allowed to synchronise between corporate computers and locally connected mobile devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry.

The new version also has an optional add-on component for full-text search in the central shadowing and event log database – DeviceLock Search Server (DLSS).