| Let's face it, USB drives are handy things. They're | | | | encryption to give your USB files the maximum |
| come to replace the floppy disks of bygone days and | | | | protection. This is heavy duty enough that it would take |
| have the advantage of being smaller, more robust and | | | | a very long time to break into your files - much more |
| a much bigger capacity. They're also a lot more | | | | time than the average thief would want to spend and |
| convenient than burning a CD ROM when you just | | | | longer than even a persistent hacker would want to |
| need to move files from one computer to another. | | | | do as well. |
| The only problem with USB stick drives is that they're | | | | The other good news is that modern USB file |
| so darned small they're easy to lose. So what can you | | | | encryption software is designed to be easy to use. |
| do to make sure that if the worst happened and you | | | | Whilst you may be able to get a free program, it's |
| lost your USB drive, your files would be safe from | | | | better to spend a handful of dollars to get a program |
| prying eyes? | | | | that works fast and works reliably. After all, you don't |
| Well, as you might have guessed from the title of this | | | | want the nightmare situation of a program that only |
| article, the solution I'm going to suggest is USB file | | | | works occasionally, leaving you red faced when you're |
| encryption. The best USB file encryption software on | | | | trying to retrieve your files. |
| the market will scramble your files totally unless they're | | | | Unless you can guarantee that your USB drive will |
| unlocked with the correct password. The kind of | | | | never get lost or fall into the wrong hands, it makes |
| encryption that's available off the shelf nowadays | | | | sense to encrypt your files with a password protection |
| would have been the envy of governments even a | | | | system. |
| few years ago. You should be looking for 256 bit | | | | |