Secure USB stick
The loss of a USB stick it can obviously be that stressful feelings resurface, this because the USB device is not protected in this case and sensitive information lying in the street. Not to come to the surprise face in the future can use some software still protect your USB stick. As a result you do not have to worry that sensitive data falling into the wrong hands.
Granite Portable is a simple application to protect your USB drives against unexpected changes or modifications by third parties. Portable Granite is so easy to use that even a layman secure USB stick can establish point by the simple interface of the program.
To access a specific folder, you must enter a user name and password. This is set by you during configuration.
Granite Portable is also able to protect your device from viruses, so you will never lose important data. This stand-alone version Granite portable can run on any computer without installation.
Insert a USB drive into your computer secure and format it, open the explorer go to this PC. Find the correct drive letter of the USB stick. Right click on the USB drive and format it as NTFS.
Granite portable can be downloaded at: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Granite-Portable.shtml
After downloading unzip the file and copy the files to the USB stick.
Open the USB drive and select the Granite portable launcher file. You will be prompted for a username and password, fill to buy the necessary data.
You mark down the terms of use and allow the computer that it can reset the password in case you do not remember to.
When you open the USB stick will you seen a Vault folder under the Document folder, all data will be secure are stored in this folder with you specify username and password.
Bottom right of your screen you will see a face shield with a capital G., if you click a panel will appear, if you want to reconnect the vault, click the red cross.