Data theft prevention & endpoint protection from unauthorized USB devices — Implementation

Abstract

Podslurping is the intentional or unintentional use of a portable USB mass storage device, such as a USB flash drive (or “thumb drive”), to illicitly download and store confidential and proprietary data from network endpoint [1]. There are many establishments and organization that are unaware of, or choose to remain ignorant about the threat that can be caused by portable devices in their network setting until some events that can be from a minor unfortunate incident to a complete catastrophe. In the information age, cybercrime and information leakage increase, because endpoints are an easy target [2]. The key to managing portable devices in business environment is to give administrator direct control over what devices are in use on your network. In this paper we present the implementation of access and identity management for endpoint protection and data security from USB devices to maintain information security and data theft prevention in a corporate environment.