Pen drive- how to fight against the security threats?

Pen drive, is not just a new boom for the internet world but also you can use it for other business sectors easily.

• For computers, pen drive is the best and high capacity storage device

• With the help of this device you can easily harm any organization.

• With the help of this device, hackers easily misuse the secret data of government and private organizations.

Most of the threats are related to virus transmission, many old antivirus software programs failed to detect viruses in pen drive. In this way your computer easily troubled by the virus transferred through pen drive.

It is very hard to detect the pen drive as they are available almost in smaller size and cannot easily be detected by a metal detector. How ever the main thing is the safety of our data, I have gathered some measure which I am going to discuss with my readers:

• First of all, it is the first and the foremost job to educate the user about the basic use of pen drive. More importantly teaching the office members about taking the necessary data at their homes and from their homes to the office.

• Company should device strict policies regarding scanning of every single inside the pen drive so as to protect the computer from bad performance. Every user is trained to scan all the files before opening. In this you can easily reduce the chances of any virus stuck to your computer.

• In the environment which is corporate, disable the desk top computers in order to prevent the outsiders from using the pen drive.

• For using peripherals, use legacy port instead of USB port.

• By simple software you can also revoke the access of users to the secret data.

• Only those devices are issued to the employees whom are not only secure but also highly recommended for purchasing. Those users which have access to the secret data must have a complete knowledge of operating the devices with security features.

Security personal:

The following are some points which a security person must keep in his mind.

• Must have knowledge of using a pen drive.

• Must know, if it is used in negative way, it may cause problems for the security data.

• If an unauthorized person is using pen drive then he must not be ignored, do take legal steps to seize the device from him.

Hope you get benefit from the above three points:

• I have completely described the inns and outs of using a pen drive.

• This thing is very small but it can be dangerous when it is used by a wrong person.