Securing USB Devices

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Securing USB Devices

Post by adilkhan_86 »

Hi Every One,

Do any one knows how to secure USB and protect them with Password.
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Post by lambda »

what are you trying to do? keep users from connecting their own devices to their computer's usb ports? why do you want to do this? is it for policy reasons?
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Post by adilkhan_86 »

Dear Saad,

The workstations are protected but for our GMs they manage to plug in USBs, which causes viruses.So I would like to have some kind of software which installed in USB and make it password protected.

So when ever, They plug in USB it will ask the password and that will make it secure.
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Post by x2oxen »

Not sure about password thing but you can try Kasper Sky antivirus because it will not let user open flash drive until user do not scan it. or intentionally don't want to scan it.
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Post by lambda »

doesn't sound like a linux problem...
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Post by LinuxFreaK »

Dear adilkhan_86,
Salam,
adilkhan_86 wrote:The workstations are protected but for our GMs they manage to plug in USBs, which causes viruses.So I would like to have some kind of software which installed in USB and make it password protected.

So when ever, They plug in USB it will ask the password and that will make it secure.
If you are talking about Micro$oft Windows then you need to find Kingston U3 DataTraveler. As they have software which will allow password protection on USB.

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Usb disk security

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Aslam O Alikum:

Use USB disk security a very useful software for windows environment.
You can download it from 4shared.com for free.

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Post by Muhammad Saad »

I wish there was an application that would destroy all the data on the USB flash drive if the user failed to provide the correct password (after 3 tries). How much fun would that have been! :twisted:
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Post by securitykid »

Hello Guys,

I would recommend to use Panda USB Vaccine,

uses simple techniques creating attribute autorun.inf, disabling autorun for others devices etc , you can do it manually though

but its great to have it as a software

Best part its free and shareware not like free to download from some fileshare :D

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/ ... sbvaccine/


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Post by azfar »

I haven't tried it but it should work.

Make a password protected group for usb users. add allowed users to them. change the permissions on /dev/usb* (whatever the naming convention you have)

OR

apply same thing but with a user, hence every time users have to switch to allowed users in order to access usb devices and for it they must know the password of above user.
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Post by qasali »

Check out GFI endpoint security. Its a very useful tool. It can block all type of devices, monitor them. also u can allow devices which u want to be used in office
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