Deep_Level_Shark Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I want to enable copy protection through USB port. Could you please suggest any software ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dafox Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Do you want to protect a USB stick with files on it or stop copying files via a usb ports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Torolol Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 A true 'copy protection' can only be achieved by controlling who or what could read the protected data. Suppose I have access to read it, so i read it using a hex-workshop and I save that data to another location, behold "Copy Protection" was defeated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Deep_Level_Shark Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Do you want to protect a USB stick with files on it or stop copying files via a usb ports? I want stop copying files from my PC via a usb ports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 anothermindbomb Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 USB ports are locked down at the office with Lumension Sanctuary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Eternal Tempest MVC Posted June 5, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 5, 2015 Assuming you control the machines you want to prevent usb copying from? You could disable the ports in bios, and make sure the bios is password protected to prevent changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 123456789A Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 At work, we fill our USB ports with epoxy glue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Eternal Tempest MVC Posted June 5, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 5, 2015 At work, we fill our USB ports with epoxy glue. Extreme... but that is very effective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 goretsky Supervisor Posted June 6, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted June 6, 2015 Hello, What you are looking for is a feature called portable device control or information rights management. With the former, removable devices are blocked (or allowed) to have files written to them. With the latter, files have permissions which allow them to be blocked (or allowed) to be written to removable devices. From your description, it sounds like you are more interested in the former. I would suggest checking with your anti-malware company to see if they offer this as a feature--it could be your anti-malware software already does this and you just have to enable the feature. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Intersect Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 I want to enable copy protection through USB port. Could you please suggest any software ? A little more info on your network enviroment would be helpfull as you can lock down usb ports with GPO objects also take a look at this http://www.bloggerbaru.com/how-to-block-usb-using-group-policy-on-windows-7/ ScottKin 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 jamieakers Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 If you're not concerned about using the USB ports for anything else the majority of modern PC's allow you to lockdown the USB ports from the BIOS for example. A simple but elegant solution that might work for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ScottKin Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I'm with @Intersect on this one - there should be a GPO (Group Policy Object) that you should be able to enforce that will disable copying files to removable media. It's 1:28am here, and I'd love to find the proper GPO for you, but if you could wait ~8hrs I'd be more than happy to help you with this. --ScottKin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Salgoth Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 At work, we fill our USB ports with epoxy glue. Might seem stupid but as long as someone has physical access to the machine it is the only way. There is ABSOLUTELY NO SOFTWARE fix as long as someone has physical access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Daedroth Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Not copy protection, but these two links will help to prevent USB access completely. Microsoft suggest this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/823732 It can also be done via GPO apparently: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/25619-blocking-usb-devices-and-removable-media I'm not entirely sure if they work, but I hope it helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 kozukumi Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Might seem stupid but as long as someone has physical access to the machine it is the only way. There is ABSOLUTELY NO SOFTWARE fix as long as someone has physical access. True. For example say an employee wants to copy a file but can't in Windows due to a GPO or some security software what do they do? Well a smart person would grab a Linux ISO, make a bootable disk (USB or optical), boot up and copy the file that way. Now obviously you have to calculate the risk of a user doing such a thing. It is obviously quite unlikely and a far bigger worry would be cloud storage or other network based communication options which are far harder to control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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