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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?
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Deroncelé, E.B., Fuentes, A.P., Tejera Hernández, D.C., Cáceres Navarro, H., Fírvida Donestévez, A.A., Febles Parker, M.E. (2014). USB Device Management in GNU/Linux Systems. In: Corral, L., Sillitti, A., Succi, G., Vlasenko, J., Wasserman, A.I. (eds) Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies. OSS 2014. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 427. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55128-4_33
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