14 DAY TRIAL // The unauthorized use of USB drives represents the cause of more than 70% of the security incidents that affect the systems of the Indian Army.
Army officials – cited by One India News – claim that although they’re strictly prohibited from copying sensitive information to such portable storage devices, many employees still rely on them to transfer data.
In an attempt to mitigate the threat posed by the misuse of such devices, cyber security guidelines have been issued to ensure that the pieces of malware present on many pen drives will not be able to steal valuable data and send it back to their masters.
In the past years, both the Indian Air Force and the country’s Navy experienced incidents caused by the improper use of external drives.
On at least a couple of occasions, the agencies found that classified data was being transferred from their systems by cybercriminals.