Zero USB Ports LaserCube Option for SIPRNET Security

To help eliminate the use of removable media on secure networks, Cubix has released LaserCube-D and LaserCube-W stateless desktop devices with zero USB ports.  Instead, keyboards and mice are connected via PS/2 interfaces only.

“Because LaserCubes are diskless and connected via fiber optics, our military intelligence customers choose LaserCubes for their high security profile already,” said Jim Zakzeski, VP Marketing & Sales. “These new zero USB options add an additional security layer by eliminating the ability to connect thumb drives and other removable media, but still deliver full speed, real time, 3D graphics performance over distance.”

Cubix command and control center solutions have additional security features found no where else, including the capability to eliminate network ports and IP traffic into the command center, while delivering complete full speed PC workstation capabilities over distance including real time 3D graphics on as many as 8 displays per warfighter/operator.

LaserCubes with zero USB ports comply with an Air Force Network Operations directive to cease use of removable media on SIPRNET (see below).

Maj. Gen. Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network Operations, issued the Dec. 3 “Cyber Control Order” — obtained by Wired Magazine's Danger Room — which directs airmen to “immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET,” the Defense Department’s secret network. Similar directives have gone out to the military’s other branches.

“Unauthorized data transfers routinely occur on classified networks using removable media and are a method the insider threat uses to exploit classified information. To mitigate the activity, all Air Force organizations must immediately suspend all SIPRNET data transfer activities on removable media,” the order adds.

For details about LaserCube, visit the LaserCube-Workstation product page or contact Cubix.