Password protect a USB stick recommendations

Empor

I'm on Windows 7, need to get some sort of protection on USB sticks when they're taken away from the office. I don't seem to have bitlocker installed, is there anything else out there that would do the job simply?

Roland_Sausage

Veracrypt

esuhl

^^ Yeah. Use VeraCrypt to create an encrypted partition on the USB stick.

You'll need to have VeraCrypt installed on any PC on which you need to access the encrypted partition.

John_Gray

A better, and much more expensive, solution is to buy USB sticks with built-in hardware or software encryption. There the encryption is self-contained, and doesn't need any software on the PC/laptop.

Here's a Google search for you!

Strider590

I wonder are U3 drives still a thing?

These could be locked down and in my case hacked so that failure to enter the correct password would wipe the machine trying to access it

Andy_L

Empor wrote: »

I'm on Windows 7, need to get some sort of protection on USB sticks when they're taken away from the office.

Are you an employee or self-employed? In the former case what does your employer/IT department recomend

Strider590

Andy_L wrote: »

Are you an employee or self-employed? In the former case what does your employer/IT department recomend

In which case make them supply a device that fits the needs, don't use your own. When it comes toIT at work, it's better to follow the rules (no matter how stupid they may be), you may think your helping by using your own devices and saving them money, but as soon as anything goes wrong you'll find yourself the victim of a witch hunt.

rmg1

We (at my local NHS) use a system called Birdstep which encrypts the USB stick.
You need a password to open the encrypted volume.

If I'm connected to my work laptop, the USB stick just opens as normal.
If I'm at home, I need the password to access the data on it.

Not sure if it can be set up to wipe the drive after so many incorrect attempts though.