No More Flashing
Nov.21, 2008 in
Marine Corps, regulations
The Marine Corps has come up with a new policy stating that the use flash drives on Marine Corps computers is not authorized effective immediately. MarAdmin 647/08 states:
USE OF ANY REMOVABLE
FLASH MEDIA STORAGE DEVICE WHICH USES A UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS (USB)
CONNECTION IS PROHIBITED ON THE MARINE CORPS ENTERPRISE NETWORK
(MCEN), BOTH NIPRNET AND SIPRNET, AS WELL AS THE MARINE CORPS
SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI) NETWORKS (JWICS AND
NSANET).
Prohibited items include flash/thumb drives, camera cards, or any firmware based memory storage device. This new restriction is based on “credible and substantial threats” to Marine Corps Networks. External hard drives are not subject to this restriction.
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:44 pm
From a civie view-point—-
Understandable.
Security *IS* top priority.
Excuse me but I *being a non-tech-head* thought that a flash/thumb drive was an external drive. Is there a big difference?? Yes or Not is more than sufficient for me.
{Hey, WAHOOOO!!! Pat me on my pointed-little-head I spelled that 3$ college-word right without looking in the dicitionary!}
November 24th, 2008 at 7:05 am
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/army-bans-usb-d.html