Microsoft is preparing an update for Windows 10 (and by extension Windows 11) that will go some way to preventing physical security attacks and the mishandling of data.

Soon, IT administrators will be able to make use of the new “layered Group Policy feature” to specify which types of USB devices are allowed to interact with Windows 10 machines provisioned for employees.

“Every device has a set of ‘identifiers’ that are understood by the system (class, device ID and instance ID),” Microsoft explained in a blog post.
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