Secure the storage and free businesses to keep using a valuable tool
Gigaom highlights the challenges with business security and the increase in size and use of USB drives for sensitive data.
Disabling USB ports isn’t the answer. It crimps users’ style, and workarounds are bound to defeat the effort.
Disk drive vendors are adding black hat-level encryption to their drive hardware (Full Disk Encryption; here’s Seagate’s take), providing a hack-proof solution that preserves the business users’ flexibility and doesn’t impact performance. As long as a strong key management capability is in place, it’s an elegant (and largely transparent) way to protect data on the move wherever it resides.
Seems like USB storage vendors could learn a lesson here, to avoid forcing businesses to limit what is obviously a highly valuable tool.
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