Thursday, December 13, 2012

Stop Data Leakage from USB Drive: Password Protection

If you need to transfer considerable files from one computer to another the first thing that comes to your mind must be USB drive disk. With the awesome feature of small size and good storage ability USB drive disk are widely used by people all around the world. As long as people storing valuable data in the USB drive disks there often occur incidence concerning data breach and disk missing. In order to stop data leakage from USB drive disks you need to take more seriously about this matter.

A survey in USA shown that some people prone to leaving their USB drive disks in the pocket or some public places and then they just forgot to take the disks out and then wash them or missing them accidentally, the number of disk missing up to some 5000 in the year 2010 alone.

This is about the loss of USB disk missing caused by the owner themselves, while how about the number of disks stolen by malicious people? There are many potential threats which may result in important data leaking or file missing and they are so unpredictable and happen randomly. So that before great damage caused by sensitive data leakage you can take measure to stop the tragedy from turning into reality.

Al least, you can secure USB drive disk security with USB encryption software which allows you to password protect USB Drives to safeguard your confidential data even if you misplace or lost the disk. Some USB drive encryption software adopts password protect USB drive theory to secure files and documents in the disk as a whole. Anybody who wants to access the data in the disk must enter the correct password, which completely ensures sensitive data is safe and untouched even the stick goes into the wrong hands. And it will make no trouble for you because you can easily access to password protected data in any computer with Windows 7/ Windows 8/XP system even without the encryption software installed.

USB drive disks with copy protection mechanism can also be found in the market, while this is not economical for people already bought the disk and these secure disks are much more expensive than normal ones. So it is wise enough for you to use a application to guard your USB drives.

There are so many applications on the web with the feature of protecting USB drive data security with password, what you need is to think twice and select one of them to help you lock USB drive for you. When you are enjoying the convenience brought by new technology, please pay more attention on your confidential data protection.

 

Monday, July 16, 2012

How to assign a password to a folder in Windows XP?


Need you set a password to a folder to protect your sensitive personal information on external hard drive of Windows XP? Here is the right place. The following are solutions I tried and worked well to protect folder with a password on Windows XP, 7 etc.


1. Password protect a folder using WinRAR in Windows XP

2. Encrypt a folder with Windows XP encryption feature

3. Use file management software to password protect folder

4. Password protect a folder with Folder Protector


Learn more, read 

How to assign a password to a folder in Windows XP .

How to password protect folder and files on Windows?

How to password protect folders and files in Windows? - Produced by KakaSoft

This article will show you how to password protect folder and files in different Windows editions. For Windows XP professional and home users, you can encrypt folders by yourself.