Secure USB Drive

Earlier this week, another UK Health Service body suffered a data breach when a member of staff lost an unencrypted pen drive.  The drive contained the details and medical records of thousands of patients, including patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth, hospital and national insurance numbers and details of their medical treatment.
 
The data had been downloaded against data handling regulations, and has not been found as yet, forcing the organisation to make a public apology and write to all the patients whose details have been lost. 

This is in contrast to a similar UK health organisation which deployed SanDisk’s secure USB flash drives to all its key staff, to secure mobile data and protect against just this type of breach.  By using the Cruzer Enterprise drives, data is encrypted without the user being able to tamper with the process, and without affecting drive performance or usage.  This makes it a win-win both for the organisation and for the users.  An altogether healthier approach to security.