We have all experienced it, you buy something and it’s not exactly the way it looked on TV. One detail or another was glossed over, forgotten, not taken into account.
Security is often just such a gloss over factor. What type of encryption, whose implementation of the cryptography, has the encryption been independently verified, does the system provide management, does the system provide auditing…. ON and on, 500 opinions, spinmasters unite and argue why their coke is better than the others pepsi….. Everyone buys their superbowl ad to promote their exploding pinto and no one knows what to do in the end..
Luckily for us all, The most interested person in security is setting an international and comprehensive standard for this. The US Government has established a team of experts in security to create the definitive list of what is secure and what is not secure in USB encryption.
The Data-At-Rest-Tiger-Team (DARTT) has established a panel to review the myriad of solutions in this area and separate science fiction from science fact. They have already published a ground breaking standard for Data-At-Rest encryption for information on hard disks; and they soon will be extending that guidance to USB Keys.
You can follow the competition, selection criteria, and winners on the US Federal Government Site: (link provided because the google search returns 1000’s on people trying to say they are security technologies) https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=dc9f632a73767835a88495473a1ca2e7&tab=core&_cview=1

They have reviewed all the major technologies in this area and selected a number of technologies that are secure and manageable. My Company, Mobile Armor, was one of them – I’m proud to say (full disclosure given).
If you have any questions about the technology, all of the DARTT information is a great place to start. They already did all their homework and offer it up to you free of charge. You may find it the best guidance as to scalable and secure USB other Data At Rest.

Bryan Glancey
CTO & Co-FOunder Mobile Armor
bryan@mobilearmor.com