How to Password Protect an External USB Hard Drive. External hard drives are extremely useful because of their portability. Many are taken on the go, especially for any business employee with ...

If you lose a CD, external hard drive, or USB drive, anyone who finds it can get access to whatever is inside. The quiz for this page is not ready yet. Please check back later.

Q: I've noticed that USB flash drives have gotten really small. I'd like to get one and put it on my key ring, but I'd be afraid to keep any personal data on it in the event that I lost my keys.

After you install TrueCrypt onto your PC, you can simply drag the program folder (which is less than 8MB) to your flash drive. Once there, you can run it on any Windows computer with a USB port.

I-O Data Japan has recently launched a new USB flash drive with some particular security features; the TB-PW. In addition to the ‘mainstream’ 128-bit AES encryption found on most secure drives ...

After loosing my USB drive for the first time, I'm now a lot more concerned about the security of my files. Is there a program, or a clever combination of programs and the autorun.inf file that ...

Enabling write protection on a Universal Serial Bus drive prevents users from adding, copying or deleting data from the device. If you've inserted a USB drive into your Microsoft Windows 7 compu ...

In Information Technology, USB password protection is a phrase used to describe the procedure of putting a password on USB drives or on the files and folders that you kept in your USB drives, so ...

Protect USB Flash Drive from Viruses PhrozenSoft Safe USB This is one of the many tools that can help you protect your flash drive from viruses. Again, I won’t claim it is 100% efficient. I am ...

Thankfully, third-party data protection software has already been developed to password protect USB drives for devices that do not have built in data security features.

Earlier this year I reviewed the Kingston IronKey USB drive which is a password-protected drive with high-level encryption that’s sufficiently secure to be approved for use by NATO. The Kingston ...