According to CBC news: In December the Durham health authority, which is responsible for a large area east of Toronto, had lost the USB stick that contains medical records of thousands people. And this USB stick has no password protection. This unsecured USB stick contained data collected from more than 83,000 patients during H1N1 flu vaccination clinics in the region between Oct. 23 and Dec. 15.
On Thursday, Ontario privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian ordered Durham and other health authority in the province “to immediately implement procedures to ensure that any personal health information stored on any mobile devices [laptops, USB sticks, etc] is strongly encrypted.”
She said that she could accept the ineluctability of loss or theft of mobile devices, but she could not accept the behavior of not using password protect USB stick. She said that since we has very advanced encryption technology to prevent the information stored on the USB stick from lost, not to secure USB stick is “both distressing and completely unacceptable”.
This incident has brought the problem of USB security to light, for the first time, so directly. We, as common mobile storage device users, should also understand the importance to use password protect USB stick. USB stick is a small device and it is easy to be lost. It’s OK if there’re only music and videos in it. However, we often put something like business presentation, coursework, orworse, contract draft in it. So in order to avoid data loss from USB stick, we need to use password protect USB stick. And USB encryption software such as Wondershare USB Drive Encryption can provide our USB stick with password protection.
Wondershare USB Drive Encryption is one of the best encryption software which is professionally designed to secure USB stick. It allows you to create a password protected secure area on USB stick for your confidential data. In addition, it also provides you a read-only option to protect the encrypted data on the secured USB stick. And you can access to the secured data on USB drive in a third computer even you don’t install the security program in the computer. And you just drag and drop data into the secured area, the data will be automatically protected with password. You see, if Durham has a tool like Wondershare USB Drive Encryption, they won’t be worried about and blamed for this incident of USB stick loss.
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