Stan Horwitz <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote on 01/07/2009 10:48:15 AM:

> > From: MIchael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV>
> > Reply-To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>,
> > <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV>
> > Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:44:39 -0500
> > To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> > Subject: Re: [Networker] Backing up remote laptops
> > 
> > We prohibit writing to devices on USB drives via the Sanctuary Device
> > Control software, from Lumension. Reading is OK; we just don't want 
anyone
> > being able to write to a USB drive, and abscond with data. This ties 
into
> > MS Active Directory, so it goes by login ID.
> 
> Then how do you allow laptop users who are off-site to back up their 
data,
> or do you also restrict what kinds of data can be kept on laptops? It 
seems
> to me that if you are going to prevent writing to USB devices, then that
> policy also makes sense for other portable storage devices, including
> laptops, and external disk drives, at least without close scrutiny.

We don't specifically back up laptops. We do folder redirection, and 
offline folders, and restrict writing to other folders on the laptop drive 
(when possible). So when the user syncs their laptops, we then backup 
those redirected folders.


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