Symantec PCANYWHERE 12.0 User Manual page 14

14 Contents
Chapter 10
Restricting access to computer drives ....................................... 201
About session security ................................................................. 202
Restricting control of the keyboard and mouse ........................... 203
Setting inactivity time limits for sessions .................................. 204
Using encryption to protect data ................................................... 204
About the Symantec Cryptographic Module ............................... 205
About symmetric encryption .................................................. 205
About public-key encryption ................................................... 206
Understanding the performance trade-offs ................................ 206
How pcAnywhere works with encryption ................................... 207
Configuring pcAnywhere to use pcAnywhere encoding ................ 207
Configuring pcAnywhere to use symmetric encryption ................ 208
Denying connections from computers that use lower
encryption .................................................................... 209
Configuring pcAnywhere to use public-key encryption ................. 210
Protecting configuration settings ................................................... 214
Ways to assess host security ......................................................... 215
Running the Host Assessment Tool .......................................... 216
Specifying the location of the host connection items ................... 217
Analyzing scan results ........................................................... 217
Getting more information about scan results ............................. 218
Learning more about security features ...................................... 218
Saving scan results ............................................................... 219
Monitoring and recording sessions
Monitoring events in Symantec pcAnywhere ................................... 221
Sending logging events to an SNMP trap ................................... 221
Generating a pcAnywhere log file ............................................ 223
Logging events in the Windows Event Viewer ............................. 224
About logging information to a central server ............................ 224
Managing log files ...................................................................... 226
Creating an activity log report ................................................. 226
Archiving or deleting log file data ............................................ 227
About recording and replaying sessions .......................................... 228
Recording a remote session .................................................... 228
Automatically recording a remote session ................................. 229
Automatically recording a host session ..................................... 229
Replaying a recorded session .................................................. 230
Saving information from a recorded session .............................. 232