One of the new security features in RHEL 6.7 is the ability to configure udev mounts as read-only.
“This gives customers a way to restrict their users’ ability to write data to removable media, such as USB thumb drives,” Almy said. “While seemingly simple, this addition helps system administrators combat a substantial source of data leakage in their environments.”
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