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title: "Prism Microsystems: To Secure USB sticks"
date: 2008-08-01T15:20:26Z
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[![cloud](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/1937370794_6f2273d4bc.jpg?v=0)

](http://www.flickr.com/photos/edans/1937370794/ "USB")

Its always good to see a client do something new and interesting with its core technology, opening up a new market, which is why I was pleased to see this [news](http://www.prismmicrosys.com/pr2008_ET6.2.php) from Prism Microsystems.

USB sticks continue to be a major threat to IT security, because they are so easily the basis of an inside job. A disgruntled employee could just grab and go. USB security is a whole market in its own right, with [any number of specialist players](http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=usb+security). For Prism though USB protection is a feature, rather than a product.

Perhaps most importantly Version 6.2 of EventTracker offers real-time alerting of USB policy breaches. In other words, its not going to be an after the fact batch when you suddenly discover someone accessed a machine they shouldn’t. The software also monitors any changes to data on the target systems when a USB stick is introduced. I haven’t seen it demonstrated yet but Prism also claims the software can disable a USB stick in this context.

Prism uses the old RedMonk video demo trick, and if you’d like to know more check it out [here](http://www.prismmicrosys.com/Support/webcast6.2.php).

thanks to [@edans](http://www.flickr.com/photos/edans/) for the CC Attribution 2.0 photo!