Faronics (TM) Corporation, founded in 1996 and based in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, develops systems that support the management, optimization, and protection of complex IT environments. The firm's products are employed by organizations across the health care, library, education, and government sectors. The company is known for its Deep Freeze (TM) and Deep Freeze Mac systems, which allow IT administrators to prevent changes to workstation software settings. Deep Freeze does not prevent users from accessing computers. Faronics Anti-Executable (TM) prevents unauthorized executables from running on workstations. It includes hard drive scanning and whitelist management features. Power Save (TM) and Power Save Mac are workstation power management programs. WINSelect allows IT administrators to control file opening, saving, printing, and other settings for all network computers. Faronics' Device Filter Mac (TM) prevents the connecting of unauthorized devices with network computers. The company's User Refresh Mac (TM) allows IT administrators to maintain user account configurations. Directories can be refreshed at scheduled intervals. The firm also is known for its System Profiler (TM) freeware utility, which generates workstation configuration inventories. Faronics maintains additional offices in San Ramon, California. Faronics is a member of the British Colombia Technology Industries Association (BC TIA), EDUCAUSE, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), and ISTE. The firm has won recognition from 'Macworld,' 'eSchool News,' and 'Technology & Learning.'