How To Make USB Drives Password Protected - Lock Pen Drives

USB Drives have become the best choice for storage these days.USB Drives with larger storage capacities available in small sizes and people are beginning to store their majority of data on pen drives. But in such cases data security is a very important thing, as we all know pen drives can be easily access, just by plugging it into USB Port. One should think twice before carrying important or sensitive data on portable drives. If you lost your pen drive or compromised, your data could fall in the wrong hands and can be used against you. But there is a there is solution for every thing - make your usb drives password protected! You can simply password protect USB flash drives so that only you or authorized users can access the data. There are two types of protection, there’s simple password protection wherein data cannot be seen without entering a password and there’s encryption, in which the data is actually encrypted and can be decrypted and accessed only with a password. In the free tools below, we have both types of protection, so make your choice.

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Free Softwares To Make USB Drives Password Protected

USB Secure

USB Secure lets you password protect USB drives. It protects USB drives, external drives, and all portable devices. Locks USB drives and blocks unauthorized access.

USB Secure is hassle free and it doesn't need a rocket scientist to master. With USB Secure your USB flash drives and all other external storage devices can be very easily password protected. An easy to use setup program will guide you to put the program on your USB drive. It can automatically detect all such drives currently plugged into your PC. After installing simply run the software, and set and confirm a password to protect USB drive and all the data in it.

Download : [USB Secure]

EncryptStick Free

Encrypt Stick runs on any USB flash drive including older USB 1.0, current USB 2.0 standard, and even upcoming USB 3.0. Performance may vary according to the read and write speed of the flash drive. Encrypt Stick Installs in seconds, and turns your flash drive into your own Digital Privacy Manager (DPM).

Encrypt Stick turns your flash drive into a private vault where you store any file you want to protect. Files can be photographs, music, video, .pdf, Word, Excel, .exe and all other file types. You can create encrypted and hidden "vaults" on virtually any writable media including Mac, PC, shared network drives, external hard drives, additional USB flash drives and SD memory cards.

Download : [EncryptStick Free]

USB Flash Security

USB Flash Security creates a password protected USB drive that will help keep you data safe.

USB Flash Security is a Japanese developed product, and it suffers from weird translations in places which is unnerving! However, USB Flash Security is not that hard to use once you've untangled the instructions. It is installed on your PC, and when you run it you can protect whichever attached drive you wish. Once protected, wherever you use the USB stick, you'll have to use a password to get in.

Download : [USB Flash Security]

TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Features of TrueCrypt :

• Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
• Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
  
• Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed

Note : You can use above mentioned softwares to Lock Pen Drives.

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