Managing Access to External Devices

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Endpoint Protection > Core Protection Module > Configuration > Device Control > Device Control Settings.
  2. Select Enable Device Control.
  3. Choose to allow or block the AutoRun function (autorun.inf) on USB storage devices.
  4. Configure settings for storage devices.
    1. Select a permission for each storage device. For details about permissions, see Permissions for Storage Devices.
    2. If the permission for USB storage devices is Block, configure a list of approved devices. Users can access these devices and you can control the level of access using permissions. See Configuring an Approved List of USB Devices.
  5. For each non-storage device, select Allow or Block.
  6. Click Create a Task to deploy the settings.
  7. Click OK. At the prompt, type your private key password and click OK.
  8. Below Actions, click the hyperlink to open the Take Action window.
  9. In the Target tab, click Specific computers selected in the list below and then choose the computers you want to deploy this Action to.
  10. When finished identifying the computers you want to include in the exception, click OK. At the prompt, type your private key password and click OK.
  11. The Action | Summary window that opens, monitor the "Status" of the Action to confirm that it is "Running" and then "Completed".