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7 Steps to Securing USB Drives
by Nimrod Reichenberg - M-Systems

Personal storage devices such as USB flash drives are more powerful than
ever and have become ubiquitous in the enterprise environment.
Originally designed for consumer use, these devices typically lack
security, control and auxiliary management tools. Many employees don’t
think twice about taking work home or out of the office on the personal
thumb drive they purchased at a local center for office supplies. With
millions of people carrying around personal storage devices, these
gadgets are being used both innocently to increase productivity and for
other less legitimate purposes such as smuggling information out of the
enterprise.

http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=958