| USB pen drive security is one of those things that | | | | not necessary for most purchasers. In fact, it's |
| most people don't think about until it's too late. It's very | | | | probably the exception rather than the rule for your |
| easy to lose or mislay a USB pen drive and even if it | | | | pen drive to have anything other than the packaging |
| eventually turns up again, there can be hours or days | | | | around it. |
| of worry if your data isn't adequately protected. So it | | | | Commercial software is your best bet when it comes |
| makes sense to use some kind of security software | | | | to protecting the data on your USB pen drive. It's a |
| on your pen drive so that in the hopefully unlikely event | | | | few dollars more than searching forever to find a free |
| of it doing a disappearing trick, you know that your | | | | piece of software and it will have the support and |
| data is safe from prying eyes. | | | | backup that you need for something as critical as this. |
| Probably the easiest way of making sure that the files | | | | Take the plunge and you'll get a friendly, easy to use |
| on your USB pen drive are secure is to use one of the | | | | piece of USB pen drive security software that just |
| commercially available programs. It's possible that your | | | | gets on with the job of protecting your data without |
| pen drive came with some kind of protection software | | | | any fuss. Which means that you're much more likely to |
| although with the ever present drive to cut costs this is | | | | use the software and that your data will be kept safe |
| less likely nowadays as it's an extra expense that's | | | | whatever happens. |