Our latest thought-leadership article has been published online in two security portals.  The article looks at best practice in securing data at rest on USB thumb drives.  It also touches on port control by effective management and provision of drives.

You can read the article here at QuantaSecurity.com and ProSecurityZone

A new series of articles in Windows IT Pro magazine is looking at encryption strategies for businesses.  The first article looks at securing USB thumb drives.

As it rightly points out, unsecured pen drives have become such a security risk because they’re so useful and portable.  In just 5 years, the UK Ministry of Defence lost 121 classified USB pen drives - that’s an average of one every two weeks.  And of course, they weren’t secured by encryption.

The article looks at what can be done to secure thumb drives.  However the technique proposed still leaves flaws that can leave data vulnerable, compared with a true secure USB flash drive.  See our earlier post for full details of how encryption should be deployed on USB drives.

These encryption techniques should also be applied to all company data at rest - no matter where it is stored.  This will protect against security breaches even if an attempt is made to access the data.