Hard Security on Flash Drives

Corsair has just brought something new on the market and I have to say that the simplicity of this new security measure is mind-blowing. Instead of complicate software solutions, involving all sorts of programs that ask you for passwords, the memory company decided to come up with a hardware solution, in order to enforce security.

This new gizmo is a simple padlock with five buttons, so all you have to do to unlock your flash drive is press a few buttons. The best part, in my opinion, is the fact that each time you yank it out of a PC the security module knows what it has to do and simply locks the flash drive by itself. This is just great, since all you have to remember is the PIN number, and if some people could hack protective software, now they have to fight this hardware solution, fact which, I think, might be harder.

Also, as NetworkWorld informs us, another boon added by Corsair is the fact that there is no need for partitioning the space (like in the case of software based security) since this works a whole lot differently. And, as the Corsair people stated to the same site, users might feel "more at home" using this system. In the modern world, people have gotten used to pressing buttons to enable passwords all day long. Think of cell phones and credit cards - you use them everyday and enter PINs all the time, so with this new gadget, you just use a security system that you have been used to for a long time. People don't have to learn something new, in order to properly maneuver it, not to mention that sometimes software is unreliable, it crashes when you least expect it.

Also, Corsair's site is bound to help users even more - some people tend to forget numbers, but the site has a function that comes to help them, a part of it storing your pin for you. You just have to get an account there. Simple enough, eh?