A new survey has found that 9,000 USB flash drives were forgotten in people’s pockets in the UK last year, when those people took their clothes to the dry cleaners.

Apart from the risk of USB drives being damaged by the dry-cleaning process - and the potential loss of data — there’s the very real risk of the data being intercepted, or handed over to the wrong person when they come to claim their clothes.

So how do you stop your data being taken to the cleaners?  The first step is to check your pockets before you leave your clothes.

The second is use a secure memory Stick that can be centrally managed, like our Cruzer Enterprise range - they are waterproof, so they are built to survive and keep your data safe in adverse circumstances

But even if the worst should happen, and your secure USB drive is damaged somehow, you can quickly recover the data and provision a new drive via the centralised management software.