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SanDisk, the world leader in USB flash drives manufacturing, has come up with a new and innovative idea of producing Secure USB Flash Drives, which will not only store your data, but also protect it. The need for having such flash drives was felt when in July 2008 an administrator at the Harris County (Texas) Hospital District lost her USB drive containing sensitive data such as the personal details of customers. According to a study conducted by SanDisk, 77 percent of corporate personnel use flash drives for their day to day official work and there is no doubt that these flash drives are open to data theft.

SanDisk is now offering USB flash drives which provide security at various levels. Companies and individuals can choose any of them as per their requirements. The new flash drives, such as the Sandisk Cruzer Professional 2GB, features hardware-based data encryption, password protection, anti-malware detection, strong authentication, and central management. Following are the new drives which have great security parameters:

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise: It is a password protected flash drive which implements access control on all the files and store them in hardware-encrypted, password-protected partition.

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise Secure USB with McAfee Malware Protection: Similar to the previous one but it also offers automatic, device-resident malware scanning which keeps it protected against malicious code.

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise FIPS Edition: It has got FIPS 140-2 level 2 certification for encryption. Instead of waiting for the users to secure their data it automatically imposes mandatory access control on the files and stores them in a secured partition having the strongest 256-bit hardware-based AES encryption.

Central Management and Control (CMC): It is a management console for the Cruzer flash drives which can be used for the setup, password recovery, data backup and drive termination.

SanDisk Cruzer Professional: Features security parameters that do not require management via CMC and deploys 256-bit AES hardware based encryption that is independent of OS, password protection and device lockdown.