Despite having readily available solutions, our public institutions continue to expose personal data by losing unprotected USB flash drives.

This week the culprit is Roane State Community College, who let an employee copy names and social security numbers to an unencrypted 4GB USB stick.  The drive was promptly stolen from an unlocked car and the College will be paying for credit monitoring for 15,977 current and former students and employees.

Data Security, Portable Storage