While we all would like our
data to reside in "The Cloud," the reality for most of us
is that our data is on a USB flash drive. When I look at my own data
flow, I see 14 gigs of data, being used across no less than nine
computers- five at home, and four at work. For the stuff I am
actually working on, it is simply impossible to have it reside on one
computer, and the flash drive is what makes this work pattern
possible.
However, with that much
data, some of it is bound to be sensitive stuff that is not for
sharing. While I have never lost a flash drive, I know plenty of
others that have, and in the end they are an accident waiting to
happen.
Enter the Aegis Secure Key
USB flash drive. This is the drive that purports to allow a user to
have their flash drive, while having it secure if found. Security is
provided via a ten key numeric keypad. The Secure Key ships with a
default PIN, and it is a simple two minute process to customize the
PIN to a new one from 7 to 15 numbers long. It also forces a random
one for the "security lazy" as it will not allow a simple
repeating PIN such as "44444444," or a simple progression
such as "12345678."
