Reply to: Security breech worry

[TheVoice]

I'd say that if they were THAT worried, they'd've locked the USB ports down.

If they say anything, offer (for a fee!!) to show them how...

[RichardCranium]

... deploy a group policy disabling USB ports.

A couple of ClientCos back, they had a super-whizzy way of disabling USB ports.

They were filled with epoxy resin when the machines were delivered new.

Unsubtle, but effective.

[The Lone Gunman]

You could try asking them if they will issue you with some sort of transfer media.

[gingerjedi]

By the letter of the law they could dismiss you.
HOWEVER that is highly unlikely.
As others have said, it depends a lot on the nature of the docs copied.
You may actualy have commited a criminal offence if you took restricted (and other) docs on a USB stick.

There was nothing marked as classified, it was mostly induction material, h & s contact details etc.

I’ve been asked to go to another site a few months so rather than having the hassle of finding it all again I thought I’d just pop it onto a stick.

Yes I now know its 'Breach'.

[oracleslave]

Outside of midwifery is there any other use for the word 'breech'?

This one?

[TheBigYinJames]

Outside of midwifery is there any other use for the word 'breech'?

Breech loading rifle.

[Troll]

Outside of midwifery is there any other use for the word 'breech'?

[Troll]

We went from Fort Knockholt to chobham - put in a room blinds closed. After a while looking at photos..

any Pot Noodles?

[ace00]

No follow up from the OP I see.
Disapeared, without trace.......
Except his browser...history....
You ain't seen me.

[NotAllThere]

I used a U3 USB stick with skype for 18 months before the client security people cottoned on to some application "phoning home". They didn't know what U3 was, and so were convinced that somehow my PC had got infected... They upgraded it and (because I stopped using skype), they problem went away.

[BrilloPad]

I remember my time spent modelling the T62 tank in 1986 - suddenly some highly highly classified photos turned up. We went from Fort Knockholt to chobham - put in a room blinds closed. After a while looking at photos and taking notes I turned them over - they were marked at lowest level. I therefore asked why they were not top secret or something. I was told then the Russians would get to know about it - all the really secret stuff is marked as restricted and kept under lock and key.

[expat]

Security breech worry

I would worry about those security breeches

[The Lone Gunman]

By the letter of the law they could dismiss you.
HOWEVER that is highly unlikely.
As others have said, it depends a lot on the nature of the docs copied.
You may actualy have commited a criminal offence if you took restricted (and other) docs on a USB stick.

[NickFitz]

If they're that concerned, and assuming it's a Windoze site as you're running Symantec, you should be able to divert attention to the sysadmin who has failed to deploy a group policy disabling USB ports.

They did that (the USB-disabling-group-policy) without any notice once at a broadcaster I was working at, which left a content manager with a bunch of photos of the band whose interview was being played out on the network show that evening unable to get the pics off his camera. In the end, I got them onto my MacBook (which wasn't allowed on the network, but they'd gracefully provided an ADSL line for my exclusive use), zipped them, then FTPd them to one of my web servers. I then emailed a link to the file on the web site to the content manager (who was sat opposite me), and he downloaded the file, unzipped it, and could then get the photos onto the show's site ready to go live as the show was broadcast.

You may want to try a similar approach in future, although if you're not supposed to use a USB stick, heaven alone knows what the consequences would be for uploading it all to a web server... if they ever realised

[Diver]

you ain't seen me, right?

And your real name & address is?