# New - Protect Company Devices From Supply Chain Attacks 🚀

Device Protection is an agent that covers the full install surface of your developers and others their devices: malware blocking, extension governance, group-based policies, and a request-and-approval workflow. Designed for security while keeping developers productive.

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### **What's included**

**Real-time malware blocking powered by Aikido Intel, across npm, PyPI, Maven, NuGet...**

**Extension governance for VS Code, OpenVSX, Chrome, and skills.sh**

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**Request and approval workflow: blocked installs trigger a one-click exception request reviewed inside Aikido**

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**Group-based policies: set different rules per team**

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**Continuous device inventory: always-current view of every package and extension per device**

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### Developer Experience

The agent runs silently in the background. For the vast majority of installs, nothing happens and packages install as normal. Developers only see a notification when something is blocked or held for approval:

**Malware block:** A desktop notification shows the package name and flags it as malicious.

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**Policy block:** A notification explains the package is restricted by your organization's policy. Developers can open the dashboard for details, but only an admin can change the policy.

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**Approval required:** If your policy requires approval for new packages, the install is paused and a request goes to the admin Inbox.

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