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Increased Regulation Will Grow Secure Flash Drive Market

25 ,January, 2010 From Dror Todress

We blogged recently about increasing regulation, and strong penalties for companies that suffer breaches in data security. Industry experts and analysts agree that these new moves will help to drive wider uptake of secure USB flash drives.

The adoption of new regulations is global. For example, Singapore’s banking regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, now requires confidential customer data stored in all types of endpoint devices to be protected with strong encryption – which means banks and related organisations have quickly adopted secure flash drives.

This article looks at the issues driving uptake, showing how companies in heavily regulated sectors have adopted the devices. It covers issues such as the use of software encryption versus hardware encryption, and also quotes SanDisk’s Dror Todress extensively, and our anti-virus partner McAfee on their opinions of the market direction.

Tags: cyberthreats, external memory devices, Malware, nation’s security, secure flash drive, sensitive information, thumb drives, USB sticks
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