The Removable Media Protected Area option 'Except when device is greater than' cannot be set to less than 8 GB

Technical Articles ID: KB77529
Last Modified: 5/28/2019

Environment

McAfee File and Removable Media Protection (FRP) 5.x, 4.3.x
McAfee Removable Media Protection (with offsite access) 5.x, 4.3.x

For details of FRP supported environments, see KB81149.

NOTE: Removable Media Protection (offsite access options) is the new name for Endpoint Encryption Removable Media.

Summary

Background details regarding FRP USB Media Protection Options described in this article:

Protected Area - Specifies options to configure the encrypted area on a removable media.
Entire Device - Creates an encrypted container that is equal to the size of the device.
You can restrict the Entire Device option based on device size by selecting the Except when device is greater than option. The maximum device size is set in GB. The default value is 64 GB; the minimum size is 8 GB. After you select it, you can specify either Do not encrypt or User Managed.

Problem

After configuring the FRP Removable Media policy to Removable Media, the administrator is unable to set the Protected Area of a managed USB device to less than 8 GB.

Cause

When you select the Protected Area option for Entire Device, the administrator is restricted to a minimum and maximum value in the field 'except when device is greater than' to the following:

FRP 4.3 and later

Maximum = 3072 GB (3 TB)
Minimum = 8 GB

Solution

This behavior is expected with the current releases. This setting is for large devices for which encryption can take much time, and hence exemption by size improves the performance. With current USB device sizes, it was considered unlikely that customers would want to configure a device with a size less than 8 GB to be exempted.

NOTE: The options covered in this article have no bearing on the minimum device size that can be encrypted with FRP. FRP can encrypt any device size.

Affected Products

Configuration
File and Removable Media Protection 5.0.x (EOL)

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