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by CHsurfer 2785 days ago
My company, which is quite large, disabled all USB storage, with some exceptions. We survived.
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I know of company that did that as well.

"We survived" is a very low standard. Security improvement should be measured against user impact and data being handled. The org. in the article does not have data confidentiality requirements that warrant such a severe user impact.

I know of first hand a corporation whose nationwide business would bw crippled by USB mass storage blanket ban. Context insensitivity is bad security.