Using a thumb drive that is not secure potentially exposes your operating system, data and company to many levels of liability. The decision to use inferior drives can ultimately lead to the dissemination of sensitive and confidential data to unauthorized users. All of these risks can be reduced or eliminated by simply using an encrypted thumb drive like the units engineered by SanDisk Enterprises. Using an encrypted thumbdrive is simply one of the easiest and inexpensive methods for increasing the security of data and preventing unauthorized access.

The thumb drive that features encryption technology can eliminate many security risks to sensitive and confidential data. In order fro an encrypted thumb drive to be considered secure it must use a sophisticated algorithm to prevent unauthorized access during the transmission of data. Encryption will also stop the reading of data should the password be broken. A solution for companies concerned about security has been to implement an encrypted USB thumb drive for their employees like the ones produced by SanDisk Enterprise. The drives use the AES 256-bit encryption to protect data from security breaches.

Thumb drive encryption as a standard security precaution reduces the opportunity for thieves to bypass security measures and expose the company to needless liability and risk which results when data is compromised. Thumb drive units that are not secure unnecessarily expose confidential and proprietary data to theft and exploitation. Many companies are at risk and don’t realize it until the damage has been done and the data has been compromised. Now the companies will have to spend a lot of money to clean up the mess and restore public confidence in their ability to manage information and data.

When thumb drives that are not secure are lost, corrupted or stolen they not only put the data they contain at risk, but also the operating system in which they have access. Many thieves are using stolen drives to gain access to host operating systems to gain access to additional data. A central control software program allows security management of an encrypted USB thumb drive where monitoring and termination of the drive can take place if it is lost, stolen or corrupted. An operating system without central control over a thumb drive that has been lost or stolen is at increased risk.

An encrypted thumb drive independent from the host operating system prevents access by those who would corrupt the host and its data. Access to the network is used not to steal data but to launch an attack against the system and corrupt its data. Once access to the network is gained with a thumb drive a virus or worm is uploaded that will set out a program to corrupt data system wide. This obviously can create a major problem for a company. Many attacks have been reported very recently. The use of a thumb drive to launch an attack on your company can be stopped by using secure drives that are also controlled by a central control system.