Originally posted here by Black Cluster
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;823732 ----> how to disable the usage of USB storage devices ....

What we really miss these days is security awarness ... Not all people appreciate the importance of security .... I worked for an ISP lately .... their customer services and marketing teams were totally clusless when it comes to security .... and to add insult to injury, they all had administrative privileges .... I don't blame them, the IT team holds absolute responsibility .... the IT team did not apply the least of security basics to protect the network that is {nominally} the vein of cretical information flowing back and forth... they just let it vulnerable to leakage and violation ..... this is really disgusting ..... I really wish someone to hurt them a little bit ... just to make a wake up call for those whiners
Working in an enterprise environment, it's almost impossible to employ security methods that aren't in some manner invalidated because of the white-list of allowed people. Prime example, we have a lot of people that watch streaming video and listen to streaming audio at work. Nothing's really wrong with the audio, it's the video that trenches the 10mb internet pipe. So, it's in the works to have policy written that's completely banning it and employing Websense policies. But, there's going to be a white-list of senior vps and the president to let them do what they want. Nothing is completely across-the-board and the IT team feel pretty helpless when they know the right thing to do, but since they're on the bottom, it's promptly ignored by people who don't have the awareness of security. Been there, done that, hehe....