Protecting Your Identity – Encryption Protection Guidelines
Aug 21
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Imagine yourself in a strange airport. You’re on your way to a meeting with a great presentation saved on your USB drive. You get out of the taxi after a 20 minute ride into the client’s office, you pay the driver and head into the presentation sure that you will nail it. But there is a problem you had not foreseen, you can’t seem to find your USB drive and you have plenty of customer data on it, data that is sensitive enough that, if found, could land you in a heap of trouble.
Now, of course you have a backup of this data on your PC at home, and you may have even been smart enough to set up GoToMyPC or some similar service so you can get it all back, but the problem of it being lost still remains.
Yes, this seems unlikely, but think of how many times you have misplaced your keys, your wallet, etc… This time, though, it’s your job that could be on the line – but what to do?
On the market these days, there are plenty of protected usb drives. Many use simple, and sometimes outdated encryption algorithms such as DES (which has not been the go-to standard since 2001). So, now, you ask yourself, which drive do I go for?
The answer is simple, well, not really actually. Here is a guideline of what you should be looking for when shopping for an Encryption Protected USB drive.
1. The drive and USB encryption has to work across multiple Operating Systems (OS)
2. It should have the ability of allowing you to not only encrypt files on your USB drive, but also anywhere on your computer (or network shares)
3. It should provide password management facilities (such as a password manager)
4. If lost, you should be able to download or find an equivalent drive that will allow you to unlock any and all files that were not lost (those that you encrypted or secured on your computer)
5. It should provide an accurate and efficient mechanism for deleting files from the drive, not just a simple Recycle Bin
6. It MUST provide you with at least AES 256-bit Encryption, which the US Department of Defense uses themself for Top Secret file transfer
This quick guide should be a great starting point for your purchase of a new Encryption Protected USB drive. Just remember, your data, your identity and possibly your job could depend on it.
Source: Ezinearticles.com
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