October : Greater New York Customers: A security
trading firm's IT organization went "Stealth" in the
rollout of USBmon:
One of our adopters of USBmon rolled out the
USBmon product offering to nearly 250 internal users. They are
running in stealth mode and are collecting a baseline of USB
flash drive usage information to assess the existence of
current threats. This information will also be used to develop
exception rules triggering alerts requiring immediate
attention rather than waiting for USB activity log review.
USBMon can run with full user awareness or monitor silently in
the background ("Stealth" Mode). Stealth mode
provides the perfect vehicle for IT and security organizations
to develop an initial threat assessment or picture of how USB
drives are actually used in the network both in frequency and
time patterns. For organizations with a "No USB
Drive" policy, this information can be particularly
enlightening.
With our customers permission we will keep everyone
updated as to what happens with this installation. Since most
customers purchase the product to find, track and then eliminate
internal threats, we will not be using the customers name without
written permission.
Stay tuned....