USB Security With Device Block

Everyone is quite familiar with the fact that USB flashhave reached to 3.5 million dollars per year.
drives are the best option to store and transfer yourAll these facts emphasize the importance of USB
confidential information and personal stuff like financialsecurity and the need to secure your data from the
documents, music files, family videos, photos and otherincidences of data leak through USB drives. To
important documents from one place to another like ifpassword protect USB drives so that if they get
you want to carry that information between yourstolen or lost, the data that they contain will remain
office and home; and between XP and Vista operatingsecure and protected, people are suing USB Secure
system, USB drive is the best option. USB drives andsoftware, but how can you protect yourself from the
other portable devices come in use when you aredata leak or how can you stop an unauthorized device
traveling from your home town to other city or countryto access your data?
either for some business purpose or for spendingFor the purpose of preventing data leak through USB
vacations and want to carry some important files withdrives, you have to block the unauthorized usage and
you.access of USB drives to your computer as you
But with these advantages and ease of using USBcannot spot who has USB drives in his pocket or in
flash drives, they pose a huge security risk that if aher purse. USB flash drives are very small in size,
USB drive containing sensitive information gets lost oranyone can easily take them and plug them to your
stolen, anyone can access and make use of thatPC and can easily take your data away without you
confidential and important data that you have saved inever knowing about this data leak. Therefore, you
it.have to block the USB port so that no one can plug in
Since you cannot escape the chances of losing yourhis device to access and copy your data.
USB drive because of their small size; you may forgetSince this is the age of mobility, people carry laptop
them at airport, internet café, at your friend's homewith themselves so you cannot put a physical lock on
or any other place where you take them. Meanwhileyour computer. You need a data leak prevention
anyone who found your lost drive would easily getsolution that would secure your data from all such data
access to all the documents and data that it contains;leak attempts. Device Block is a newly designed data
and it is definitely a risk for you!leak prevention tool that can block all types of
This is just one side of the picture that if you lost aunauthorized USB drives from accessing your data in
USB drive that contain important information in it, yousuch a way that even if someone plugs in his USB
may end up with losing your data; but apart from thisdrive to your computer and tries to access your data,
there is another huge security risk that is associatedhe would not be able to access your files without
with these small sized storage device and this is theentering the correct password that you have set in the
risk of data being leaked out. Their small size and hugeDevice Block.
storage capacity have made them best option forThis is a very unique approach towards data leak
those who want to steal your data.prevention methods that enables you to block
According to a recent study, it has been shown thatunauthorized access of USB flash drives and at the
about 46% of corporate information is leaked throughsame time allowing you to copy files to your own USB
these small sized USB flash drives. A rough estimatedrive after entering the correct password.
of the average lost due to such data leak incidences