{"id":1552,"date":"2008-08-01T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2008-08-01T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:20:26","slug":"prism-microsystems-to-secure-usb-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/prism-microsystems-to-secure-usb-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Prism Microsystems: To Secure USB sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edans\/1937370794\/\" title=\"USB\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2379\/1937370794_6f2273d4bc.jpg?v=0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cloud\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prismmicrosys.com\/pr2008_ET6.2.php\">news<\/a> from Prism Microsystems.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sourceid=navclient&amp;gfns=1&amp;q=usb+security\">any number of specialist players<\/a>. For Prism though USB protection is a feature, rather than a product.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t. The software also monitors any changes to data on the target systems when a USB stick is introduced. I haven&#8217;t seen it demonstrated yet but Prism also claims the software can disable a USB stick in this context.<\/p>\n<p>Prism uses the old RedMonk video demo trick, and if you&#8217;d like to know more check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prismmicrosys.com\/Support\/webcast6.2.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edans\/\">@edans<\/a> for the CC Attribution 2.0 photo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 from Prism Microsystems. USB sticks continue to be a major threat to IT security, because they are so easily the basis of an inside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-p2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}