From: Bourque Daniel (Daniel.Bourqueloto-quebec.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 2004 - 15:26:26 CST

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There is a driver on the market that can selectively disable USB device

www.protect-me.com see DeviceLock®

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De : Laura A. Robinson [mailto:laurarobinsonverizon.net]
Envoyé : 9 décembre, 2004 22:23
À : 'Tim Watkins'; focus-mssecurityfocus.com
Objet : RE: Secondary Storage Device Policy

You can do it with XPSP2:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2otech.mspx
#ECAA

Otherwise, in most cases, you're looking at a more global disabling of USB,
which is, of course, not what you're seeking.

Laura

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Watkins [mailto:watkinstjiimef.usmc.mil]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:01 PM
> To: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
> Subject: Secondary Storage Device Policy
>
>
>
> I am currently developing a policy in a Microsoft environment
> on the use of Secondary Storage Devices. This is especially
> concerned with Thumb drives and ensuring that they do not
> compromise security between classified systems. Do any of
> you already have a policy in place? Additionally, is there a
> simple way of removing the drivers from a WinXP or 2000
> environment so that these types of devices can not be
> installed via plug and play? I have played around with the
> idea of shutting down USB ports but there are just too may
> other things (mice, keyboards, cac readers) that use them.
> If there was a way to know (event viewer perhaps) or other
> means when one was attached, it would also help.
>
>
>
> Tim Watkins
>
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