If you’re running a small work environment or business then you would want to restrict your employees from sending your data outside the company. In such cases it’s better to disable USB port to avoid any data transfer by employees. In this post you’ll find ways to remove USB access from your work environment.
1. Disabling USB from BIOS – This one is the best option to remove the USB access from your computer. You can simply boot into your BIOS and disable CD writer, USB from the work environment computers.
2. Registry Entry – You can also change the value of the Start key in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR. This will also accomplish the same thing like BIOS.
3. Removing USBSTOR.INF – This one seems to be small hack which can be taken over by simply reinstalling or giving path to files so not recommended if your staff is tech savvy. If not, then remove the USBSTOR.INF file from system32.
4. Websense – This software can set policy for work environment software and remove the access to specific drives, ports and network access.
There are few other ways of dealing with this situation but those ways involve commercial software. So the above ways are less expensive and cost effective for small business.
