Re: encrypted USB drive recommendations

[Brad Judy <win-hied () BRADJUDY COM>]

While I personally use an IronKey drive, we have also recommended the
Kingston DataTraveler Vault - Privacy Edition drives.  Kingston makes a
variety of drives, some with hardware encryption and some packaged with
software encryption, so make sure you know what you're getting.  The
Kingston DataTraveler Vault - Privacy Edition use hardware encryption and
are cheaper than IronKey drives (although not as cheap as regular
thumbdrives).  

Brad Judy

Emory University

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Youngquist, Jason R.
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:13 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] encrypted USB drive recommendations

Does anyone have any recommendations for cost effective encrypted USB
drives?

I know the Ironkey USB drive is one of the defacto secure USB drives out
there, but we were looking for some lower cost solutions that we might
recommend to faculty/staff/students.

Key features:
--reasonable price
--easy to use
--Windows and Mac compatible.
--USB drive must only have an encrypted partition (some USB drives have a
non-encrypted and encrypted partition)
--size really doesn't matter - 2-4gigs should be fine


Thanks.
Jason Youngquist
Information Technology Security Engineer
Technology Services
Columbia College
1001 Rogers Street, Columbia, MO  65216
(573) 875-7334
jryoungquist () ccis edu
http://www.ccis.edu