RE: Controlling specific USB devices on Windows XP

At Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:30 AM:, George Njoku wrote:

Gentlemen, this USB lock down for certain device is a nice idea, but
just not necessary

If you're trying to say it's not perfect, then you're correct. No
security measure is perfect. That doesn't mean that many of them aren't
valuable to do *if*, for your company, the time and expense to implement
them outweighs the risk they protect against.

There are also other reasons for such measures:

1) Prevent against accidental data leakage. A lot of these types of
prophylactic measures aren't intended to deter evildoers, but rather
keep accidents from happening.
2) Raise the bar of data leakage so that it becomes easier to
demonstrate intent. If you have to deliberately evade security measures,
it's much harder to claim that you had no idea what you were doing.

For many organizations, these types of measures provide value -- enough
value to justify implementing them.

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