USBGuard
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Programming language
- C++
- Author
- Daniel Kopeček
- Latest release
- usbguard-1.1.2
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
USBGuard would be used to define what devices are welcome and lock out the others. It uses a whitelist to define which devices are allowed and defines what they can do.
Usage and audience
USBGuard is commonly used for hardware security or system hardening. Target users for this tool are system administrators.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Supported by a large company
Installation
Supported operating systems
USBGuard is known to work on Linux.
USBGuard alternatives
Similar tools to USBGuard:
USB Canary
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PCILeech
PCILeech is a tool which uses PCIe hardware devices to attack a target system. It can read and write from the system memory by using DMA over PCIe. It requires no drivers on the system of the target itself.
USBleach
USBleach disarms potential threats to systems by acting as a firewall or gateway for USB drives and USB sticks.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Linux hardware security tool, USB protection tool, and USB security tool.