USB Device Management in GNU/Linux Systems

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TitleUSB Device Management in GNU/Linux Systems
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsDeroncelé, EB, Fuentes, AP, Tejera Hernández, DC, Cáceres Navarro, H, Fírvida Donestévez, AA, Febles Parker, ME
Secondary AuthorsCorral, L, Sillitti, A, Succi, G, Vlasenko, J, Wasserman, AI
Secondary TitleOpen Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies
Series TitleIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume427
Pagination218-225
PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN Number978-3-642-55127-7
Abstract

Protecting the access to USB ports has the same priority for information security than firewalls and antivirus software. Nowadays there are some tools that allow us to monitor and regulate the access to USB devices, but all of them are distributed under proprietary licenses. This work presents an application that solves the mentioned problem: ?’How controlling the access to USB mass storage devices in GNU/Linux Operating Systems?
URLhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_33
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_33
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