This course is using an outdated version of the technology and is now considered to be Legacy content. It will be removed from our catalog on June 28, 2024. Please be sure to complete your course and finish any remaining labs before that date. We recommend moving to version 9.2, which is the latest version currently available.
In this chapter, you learned:
USBGuard protects your systems against rogue USB devices by implementing basic whitelisting and blacklisting capabilities based on device attributes.
The usbguard-daemon service determines whether or not to authorize a USB device based on a policy defined by a set of rules.
When a USB device is inserted into the system the daemon scans the existing rules sequentially, and when a matching rule is found it either allows, blocks or rejects the device, based on the rule target.
The usbguard utility is used to manage the USB device authorization rules.