USB Flash Drive Security

Vendors just won't give up on encrypted USB drives. The cloud should have rendered them obsolete but somehow it hasn't worked out that way. Despite some obvious drawbacks, many organizations still prefer to hand employees physical USB sticks rather than adopt cloud services that some (rightly or wrongly) believe come with insecurities of their own.

 

As the workforce becomes more mobile, one of the biggest issues facing the business world is securely managing portable storage devices. As a result, more and more organizations are implementing infrastructure to support mobile devices and workers all the while trying to maintain the security and confidentiality of corporate information. Kingston's Data Traveler Vault Privacy 3.0 USB Flash drives provide business-grade security using 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption with XTS block cipher mode in case the drive has been misplaced or stolen. Another privacy-enforcing feature is the drive's ability to lock down and reformat after 10 intrusion attempts.

 

Device encryption, like all password-protected technology, comes with the unavoidable risk of users forgetting their passwords. In some cases, proper recovery-key management or a password-management tool can mitigate this. Along these lines, makes sure the encrypted data is never the sole copy of the information and that a secure back up is available elsewhere.

 

In the early days of computer viruses and malware the primary means of transmission and infection was the floppy disk Today, USB flash drives perform the same data and software storage and transfer role as the floppy disk, often used for transferring files between computers which may be on different networks or in different offices, owned by different people; this has made USB flash drives a leading form of information system infection. When a piece of malware gets onto a USB flash drive it may infect the devices into which that drive is subsequently plugged.

 

USB encryption is must these days. Person like myself, I carry sensitive information around and most of the times I forget my USB here and there. Obviously I would not like my friends or anyone else to peek secure usb in. That is the reason I use encryption and I particularly use Data Protector. The software has been good to me. Its been 3 years now and i have been using this software. I am glad i tried it. Recommend too.