THE SC MAGAZINE WHITE PAPER OF THE DAY - June 10, 2009
Prism Microsystems - Managing USB Mass Storage Devices - Best Practices
In the last few years, portable, high capacity USB storage devices like thumb/flash drives have become increasingly prevalent in corporations, and devices such as cell phones, PDA's, iPods all can serve as USB storage devices. These devices are incredible productivity aids - large files can be moved from computer to computer without the need to maintain shared drives, or even worry about file sizes preventing email. Personnel are also able to take files home to work on home computers off hours. The issue is that all these advantages introduce significant security vulnerabilities at the same time.
This White Paper discusses how you can take advantage of the power of these devices without leaving your operation wide open to critical company information being misappropriated. Until now the choice has been to either shut down USB devices - either in Active Directory or through more extreme methods (the "glue in the USB port" trick comes to mind) - or simply trust every user to do the right thing. This paper introduces a third way that Prism Microsystems calls "Trust but Verify" which is made possible by EventTracker's advanced USB monitoring capability.
About Prism Microsystems:
Prism Microsystems is a developer of security information and event management software including EventTracker SIEM and EventTracker PULSE. EventTracker SIEM is an enterprise-level solution that enables customers to consolidate, correlate and detect changes that impact the performance and security of the IT infrastructure. EventTrackerPULSE is a free log aggregation and search utility.
Click here for more information about Prism Microsystems.
|
|
