Hello,

I was wondering if there’s a way (or an upcoming feature planned) to automatically eject a Knox vault disk image after a certain period of time? I think it would be helpful in case something is left open when I step away from my desktop, close up my laptop, etc. Or maybe there’s another way to do this within the Mac system?

Thanks.

Hi—I’ve just added this to the FAQ as it also got asked in another thread. Here are the relevant answers:

Could you add a feature for closing Knox vaults automatically after some time?
We get requests for this every once in a while, but we recommend just using a password-protected screensaver instead. With automatic unmount, we’d either have to err on the side of data safety (do not unmount if there are open files), or on the side of security (force unmount even if there are open files). We really don’t want to make that call on behalf of our users—with thousands of you out there, we’d surely make the wrong choice from someone’s point of view.

Which settings should I set in the System Preferences to make my Mac secure?
We run our Macs with the following settings: In the Security preference pane, Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver, Disable automatic login, Use secure virtual memory. In the Desktop & Screen Saver pane, we set up a short time to start the screensaver, and also specify a hot corner to launch it immediately when we leave the computer. In the Sharing preference pane, we disable all services we don’t use and turn on the firewall. Finally, we disable safe sleep.