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Mobile storage - an excuse for body cavity searches by your boss?
by Staff Writer | posted on 24 November 2005
"Short of actually conducting body cavity searches at the employee exit, there is no secure way to ensure that illegally obtained valuable data isn't sharing an employee's commute home," reports a security analyst.
This may not be your idea of fun. IS it the way security personnel are thinking, when faced with SD storage cards with four gig of memory? Apparently, yes:
"Even with body cavity searches, security personnel could never have the time to thoroughly examine every portable electronic device that employees and visitors carry with them onto the premises every day. "
The article, at net-security.org, will make chilling reading for both enforcers, and victims, of corporate security policies. Try: "The easiest way to protect against 99% of the unauthorized use of portable storage devices is to disable or otherwise control the USB port since most devices communicate through USB."
A nice look into the mind of the typical network nazi...
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