USB Security

Everyone is quite familiar with the fact that USB flash drives are the best option to store and transfer your confidential information and personal stuff like financial documents, music files, family videos, photos and other important documents from one place to another like if you want to carry that information between your office and home; and between XP and Vista operating system, USB drive is the best option. USB drives and other portable devices come in use when you are traveling from your home town to other city or country either for some business purpose or for spending vacations and want to carry some important files with you.

But with these advantages and ease of using USB flash drives, they pose a huge security risk that if a USB drive containing sensitive information gets lost or stolen, anyone can access and make use of that confidential and important data that you have saved in it.

Since you cannot escape the chances of losing your USB drive because of their small size; you may forget them at airport, internet café, at your friend’s home or any other place where you take them. Meanwhile anyone who found your lost drive would easily get access to all the documents and data that it contains; and it is definitely a risk for you!

This is just one side of the picture that if you lost a USB drive that contain important information in it, you may end up with losing your data; but apart from this there is another huge security risk that is associated with these small sized storage device and this is the risk of data being leaked out. Their small size and huge storage capacity have made them best option for those who want to steal your data.

According to a recent study, it has been shown that about 46% of corporate information is leaked through these small sized USB flash drives. A rough estimate of the average lost due to such data leak incidences have reached to 3.5 million dollars per year.

All these facts emphasize the importance of USB security and the need to secure your data from the incidences of data leak through USB drives. To password protect USB drives so that if they get stolen or lost, the data that they contain will remain secure and protected, people are suing USB Secure software, but how can you protect yourself from the data leak or how can you stop an unauthorized device to access your data?

For the purpose of preventing data leak through USB drives, you have to block the unauthorized usage and access of USB drives to your computer as you cannot spot who has USB drives in his pocket or in her purse. USB flash drives are very small in size, anyone can easily take them and plug them to your PC and can easily take your data away without you ever knowing about this data leak. Therefore, you have to block the Usb Port so that no one can plug in his device to access and copy your data.

Since this is the age of mobility, people carry laptop with themselves so you cannot put a physical lock on your computer. You need a data leak prevention solution that would secure your data from all such data leak attempts. Device Block is a newly designed data leak prevention tool that can block all types of unauthorized USB drives from accessing your data in such a way that even if someone plugs in his USB drive to your computer and tries to access your data, he would not be able to access your files without entering the correct password that you have set in the Device Block.

This is a very unique approach towards data leak prevention methods that enables you to block unauthorized access of USB flash drives and at the same time allowing you to copy files to your own USB drive after entering the correct password.

About the Author

Mark Neil is associated with Newsoftwares.net, Inc developers of Device Block software.

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