Securing Data on A USB Flash Drive

[Computician]

Guys,

Hope this is the right forum to post this one if not then please excuse.
I have been searching for an encryption software for my usb flah drive to protect sensitive data. I travel and also carry data to and from home to office. Tried may softwares including Trucrypt, Cryptex and so on but the problem is that not a single one can be operated on a machine without having the "administrative rights". There are some softwares like cryptmage and ofcourse zip/rar that can compress and password lock but you have to zip and unzip all your files over and over again. I want something that can lock the USB altogether or create an encrypted volume on the usb drive itself.
Can someone advise.

Regards,

 

[2ffat]

I know Verbatim has a product called V-Safe that will do what you want but I don't know if they sell it separately from their USB drives.



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[Computician]

Thank you 2ffat,

Verbatim's V-safe can only be used if one has the "admin. rights" on the particular machine.

Regards,

 

[eyec]

I travel and also carry data to and from home to office.

this is risky and if your company authorizes this - then they should pay for a commercial encryption package or you should not be using the data on an unsecured machine that you do not have admin rights on.

PGP may be a solution

 

[Computician]

Hello All,

this is just for all you who have replied and shown interest in the query.
I tried a few softwares but none worked without "admin rights". the few which worked were usual folder/file hiding programs and some compress each individual file in the folder, making it rather a slow process. And then again you would have to unzip them all.
The program that worked for me is "Stealthdisk", it seams to work even without admin rights. I wonder if someone else has tried it?

Cheers

 

[69017]

Hi,
They InfolockTech Compliance Management are providing good services like Usb Security etc ...you should contact them for solution ...
Regards

 

[damber]

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Provides strong and deniable disk encryption on any storage media, and has a portable program (auto loaded in windows) and installer so you can use it wherever you use the media on a Windows or Linux operating system.

I use this on my usb key for private stuff and it's well worth it.

I'm pretty sure it can be loaded without admin rights too (as long as you have rights to access a usb stick in the first place)

hope that helps,

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[Computician]

Hello Damber,

Thanks for the reply. Please see my question at the top. I have written that I have already tried "Truecrypt". Infact, my usb flash came with this software from the vendor. It does not work without admin rights and they say it in their manual too. Even the "traveler mode" cannot be used without admin rights.

Cheers

 

[damber]

My mistake, I hadn't read your initial post thoroughly.



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