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Network Peripherals a Short overview E-mail

Peripherals
For Network Peripherals we will be looking for Hardware that is not (directly) connected to the network.
Devices like these are attached -- temporarily or permanently -- to a component of the network.

Device's like this could ba hardware like:

  • Bar Code Reader (1D and 2D)
  • Cell phones
  • Digital camera(s)
  • Docking station(s)
  • Hand Held Computing Devices (inc.: PDAs, inventory taking, etc.)
  • Keyboards
  • Local printers
  • Microphones
  • Monitors / Displays
  • Mice
  • Speakers
  • Removable storage devices (inc.: USB memory sticks, external harddisk, floppies, CDs, DVDs, etc.)
  • USB Hubs
  • VoIP phone handsets

Some of such peripherals are potential points-of-failure of the security infrastructure.
To limit those potential there must be policy, procedure and process for reducing risk and/or exposure of these devices..