Review of Wondershare USB Drive Encryption: Portable Encryption Tool

Computers & TechnologySite Security

  • Author Mary Guo
  • Published July 10, 2010
  • Word count 495

Wondershare USB Drive Encryption is a handy tool to exactly encrypt USB sticks and other portable storage media. It takes 3 simple steps to extend protection to USB devices. With correct password, you can view your encrypted files stored on USB devices on any computer without the protection software installed.

Featured US military-level encryption technology-256-bit AES, Wondershare USB Drive Encryption guarantees the highest level of file security for your business and personal data. You no longer need to worry that at a lost or stolen USB device may leak your privacy/trade secrets and cause a disaster.

The following is a list of pros and cons that can shed light on why it is a brilliant program but also what should you notice if you want to try it:

What are the benefits?

US military-level 256-bit AES algorithm: Allow you to get the highest level protection available now for your files. At present, 256-bit AES encryption is the most advanced encryption algorithm used by the public in both the corporate and home computing environment. And it is once only limited to US government.

Data Separated Protection: Wondershare USB Encryption allows you to divide USB devices into secure area and public area after encryption. Data on secure area is only accessible with correct password while data on public area is unprotected. This enables you to encrypt confidential files while keep ordinary files shareable for others with one USB stick. When someone wants to borrow your USB stick to carry data or for other things, it’s no need for you to delete the files that you don’t want others to know any longer.

Portable encrypted data: With password, the encrypted data is accessible on USB sticks in any computer even without the security software installed. After installing USB Drive Encryption in your device, you can also encrypt and decrypt files on USB sticks in a third computer.

Hide encrypted data: To get more protection, you can hide data on secure area by deleting the access to it. And easily get back the lost access by the Recover button when you need. Even your USB stick lost, no one will find your encrypted data, let alone try to break it.

Antivirus ability of encrypted data: Wondershare USB Drive Encryption provides read-only options to protect encrypted data from viruses. And under read-only mode, you can do nothing for your encrypted data except reading the encrypted data.

Notice:

Wondershare USB Drive Encryption cannot backup data automatically:

Wondershare USB Drive Encryption will delete all files on USB stick during creating a secure area for the confidential files. The software will remind users to have backup of files on USB stick, but still I hope it has ability to backup files automatically.

The verdict:

This USB encryption software is easy to use. It can provide full security for USB devices, a good option for business and home users who intend to encrypt USB devices for their private and company data.

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