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Kingston Enhances Data Security Feature in USB Flash Drives

Posted on July, Friday 09, 2010 By ITVarNews Network

Kingston is offering secure solutions that are tailored to one’s needs, from high-end to entry level, including DataTraveler 5000, DataTraveler Vault-Privacy Edition, DataTraveler Locker+, and DataTraveler Locker.

Personal drive needs to have faultless data protection function and if thats not the case then theres big potential risk for users. An incident happened in Hong Kong recently highlighted the importance and necessity of data protection.

A clerk of School of General Nursing of Kowloon Hospital stored the personal data of around 300 pupil nurses in a personal USB Flash drive for daily contact purposes. On one evening this clerk suddenly found she has lost the USB drive at a LRT station. She immediately reported the incident to police and her supervisor.

Before long, the Nursing School informed and apologized to all pupil nurses concerned. Kowloon Hospital is investigating the incident and will take the appropriate disciplinary actions for the concerned clerk. After this case, Kowloon Hospital has reminded all crew that they must strictly follow the guidelines on personal data protection and all data must be stored in encrypted storage devices.

For keeping

users data safe, Kingston is offering secure solutions that are tailored to ones needs, from high-end to entry level, including DataTraveler 5000, DataTraveler Vault-Privacy Edition, DataTraveler Locker+, and DataTraveler Locker.

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