Disabling the ability to read/write to a USB device??

It is highly desirable that USB drives are not used in
certain locations (such as financial institutions) - In
general this is a very difficult policy to enforce as USB
is so handy you don't want to generally disable it.

Is it possible to disable the ability to read and/or write
to a USB device using the inherent security settings (e.g
domain or group policy) for different user groups ?

Cheers

Mark

g-w
Mon Sep 13 04:54:13 CDT 2004

Mark wrote:
> It is highly desirable that USB drives are not used in
> certain locations (such as financial institutions) - In
> general this is a very difficult policy to enforce as USB
> is so handy you don't want to generally disable it.
>
> Is it possible to disable the ability to read and/or write
> to a USB device using the inherent security settings (e.g
> domain or group policy) for different user groups ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark

With Server 2003 I beleive it is possible to prevent any external USB
device if needed.

g-w

anonymous
Mon Sep 13 05:45:35 CDT 2004


>-----Original Message-----
>Mark wrote:
>> It is highly desirable that USB drives are not used in
>> certain locations (such as financial institutions) - In
>> general this is a very difficult policy to enforce as
USB
>> is so handy you don't want to generally disable it.
>>
>> Is it possible to disable the ability to read and/or
write
>> to a USB device using the inherent security settings
(e.g
>> domain or group policy) for different user groups ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mark
>
>With Server 2003 I beleive it is possible to prevent any
external USB
>device if needed.
>
>g-w
>.
>

Do you have any ideas how to go about implementing this?

Cheers,

Mark

Marco
Tue Sep 14 05:02:17 CDT 2004

Hi

yuu cannot control read/write unless you install third-party software. I
reccomend SecureNT from SecureWave.

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Marco [ www.neovalens.com ]
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"Mark" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> It is highly desirable that USB drives are not used in
> certain locations (such as financial institutions) - In
> general this is a very difficult policy to enforce as USB
> is so handy you don't want to generally disable it.
>
> Is it possible to disable the ability to read and/or write
> to a USB device using the inherent security settings (e.g
> domain or group policy) for different user groups ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark

sergey588
Wed Sep 15 04:37:35 CDT 2004

Hello,
You can try DeviceLock www.protect-me.com/dl . It can block access to
USB, COM, HDDs, CDRWs etc., so I think, it will be useful for you.

> "Mark" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:adff01c49971$707c3940$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> > It is highly desirable that USB drives are not used in
> > certain locations (such as financial institutions) - In
> > general this is a very difficult policy to enforce as USB
> > is so handy you don't want to generally disable it.
> >
> > Is it possible to disable the ability to read and/or write
> > to a USB device using the inherent security settings (e.g
> > domain or group policy) for different user groups ?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Mark