Re: RDP and Campus Computers

["Aaron B. Bewley" <abewley () UARK EDU>]

contact your cisco rep.  They have a newish product ( the name has
escaped me ) that can sit on the server side ( where the info is
located) that allows the admin the ability to allow or disallow copying
data...whether it be to a printer, USB, file, etc.

Aaron Bewley
IT Security
University of Arkansas

Carroll, John wrote:
> We at Longwood have been trying to find a solution that would allow our faculty and staff to work from home while preventing them from 
> downloading or storing potentially sensitive data on their personal computers. One solution that we are favoring is leveraging our SSL VPN 
> Cisco client with the Remote Desktop to the users office computer. The issue with that appears to be the clipboard "cut and 
> paste", which allows you to essentially copy data from work to your personal computer. To further aggravate, the option to enable and 
> disable this feature appears to be with the client side (home user). I have not had much luck finding a solution on the web to disable the 
> "cut and paste" (rdpclip.exe) permanently. It is a Windows protected file.
>
> Has anyone attempted to do this and found the same issue or perhaps a solution or, do we need to find an alternative 
> method and give-up on RDP?
>
>
> Any suggestions or advice would be most welcome.
>
>
> John Carroll
> Information Security Office
> Longwood University