Stop Employees transporting sensitive information home on USB keys https://bwizardsworkshop.runboard.com/t85 Runboard| Stop Employees transporting sensitive information home on USB keys en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:08:47 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:08:47 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Stop Employees transporting sensitive information home on USB keyshttps://bwizardsworkshop.runboard.com/p131,from=rss#post131https://bwizardsworkshop.runboard.com/p131,from=rss#post131The route you need to go down depends on whether your want to completely block USB drives or not. To disable USB drives, log onto the machine in question and launch the Registry Editor 1. Start 2. Run 3. type in: regedit Navigate to:- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Services\ USBSTOR and double-click the key named Start in the right-hand pane. Change the value of this key to 4 and USB storage devices will have been disabled. Your other option is to make USB drives read-only so that no files can be copied from your computers to them. Log onto the machine you’d like to restrict, open up the Registry Editor and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ StorageDevicePolicies Locate the DWord value WriteProtect Double-click this entry and change the value to 1 to make it read-onlynondisclosed_email@example.com (Wizard27)Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:42:34 +0000