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. -- Devin L. Ganger Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3Sharp LLC Phone: 425.882.1032 x 109 15311 NE 90th Street Cell: 425.239.2575 Redmond, WA 98052 Fax: 425.702.8455 (e)Mail Insecurity: http://blogs.3sharp.com/blog/deving/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
