Secure USB Drive

Here’s a useful article offering business travellers useful tips on how to secure their data when they are travelling.  It covers practical and safe methods to safeguard information on laptops, smartphones and removable storage media in airports and other areas where devices are easily lost or stolen.

However, one recommendation that demands caution is the advice to use free encryption software to protect data on laptop hard drives, USB flash drives and so on.

As we’ve posted here before, this approach gives a fair level of protection for data and is better than no encryption at all.  But it’s worth noting its shortcomings:  such software-based encryption is not “always on” – so the user has to remember to actively encrypt data.  Unlike the hardware encryption on our Cruzer Enterprise range of secure drives.

With a true secure USB flash drive, you don’t have to worry whether the data you’re packing is encrypted.