How to secure USB thumb drives
June 29th, 2009
A new article at Search Security, “How to secure USB thumb drives“, mentions the Kanguru Remote Management Console as a way for businesses to get a handle on their thumb drive fleets. As the article notes, even small businesses need to consider the implications of portable devices holding massive amounts of company data. Most states have breach notifications laws that apply to businesses of all sizes.
Kanguru Remote Management is compatible with the Kanguru Bio AES and Defender series flash drives. Find out more here.
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why do that when you can TruCrypt it ( http://www.truecrypt.org ) . Why re-invent the wheel?
Software-based encryption like TrueCrypt has serious drawbacks in a enterprise environment. Users need administrator rights to install software on the host PC. This is usually a show-stopper for IT professionals. Software-based solutions also rely on the user to store their information in the encrypted partition and not the public partition of the device. Hardware-based solutions can enforce 100% encryption that cannot be circumvented by employees (intentionally or otherwise).
That said, TrueCrypt might work perfectly fine for some personal applications.