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What do you need to note when using USB flash drives?
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Apr-20-2014
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USB flash drives are widely used in our work, and study. What do you need to note when using USB flash drives? It’s always a good idea to password protect personal files and information on your computer or USB to avoid other users accesses.
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USB flash drives are widely used in our work, and study. It rapidly develops and lifts our work and living efficiency and quality. But on the other side, the disadvantages or we can say risks caused by USB flash drives also give people reason to restrict and limit usage of portable storage devices. Owing to portability and heavy capacity of portable storage devices, some people may carry virus from one computer to another computer, what’s worse, the portable flash drive will become a carrier to take away or steal other people’s privacy and sensitive information.
Apart from the risks of bringing about viruses, some unethical men will steal and take away other people’s sensitive or confidential files and information on computer. Even though it’s not unethical man who wants to steal your files or information, the files and data stored in computer will also be copied by your family members such as little brothers who share the computer with you. It’s always a good idea to password protect personal files and information on your computer to avoid other users accesses. And of course, password protection on sensitive files and documents can enhance the security of personal privacy.
Now many people use flash drives as storage device or carrier on daily basis, they carry files or folders from one computer to another computer or from one place to another place at work or at home, which provides more opportunities to bring virus from one compute to another computer. Some autorun viruses carried by the portable storage devices from other computers may tamper files or settings on your computer. Now people are always pay attention to virus from the Internet but ignore the viruses coming from USB flash drives. They seldom note the threats and dangers brought about by flash drives. And that’s why now many companies block the usage of USB ports on employees’ computer. But USB port block to some extent also produce inconvenience to employees’ work. At most time, employees need to acquire information and sources from the Internet to fulfill their working tasks, so merely blocking USB ports of employees’ computer may lead to inconvenience to employees work instead of protecting data and files on their computers. For administrators of enterprises, installing network and computer monitoring system can effectively help them manage and control operation over files on employees’ computers.
And for those who prone to storing files and documents in flash drive as backup or for purpose of data transmission, they should beware of the threats of data loss caused by missing flash drives. The files and documents without any protection on flash drives may fall into wrong hands if the flash drive gets lost. To avoid the problem mentioned above, we need to password protect the files and documents on flash drives so that other people can’t access the contents on drive even if it got lost. There’re many solutions to complete the protection, but you should choose one with strong encryption technology when the files on flash drive are extremely important and confidential.
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Source de l'article :
http://fr.articleseen.com/Article_What do you need to note when using USB flash drives?_803.aspx
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auteur ressource :
I am a technical writer from kakasoft. I aways care about data safety for small business such as folder protector, shared folder encryption and so on. Welcome to change views with me.
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Mots-clés :
usb, password protect usb, usb encryption,
Catégorie :
Internet et Business
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Sécurité
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