Fujitsu Creates Intelligent USB Drive for Ultra-security

Fujitsu has continued its innovation in security with the invention of a smart USB drives. Due to the ever increasing threat of data leakage through small portable flash drives system administrators and policymakers are struggling with ways to stem these problems while maintaining their utility. For a brief stint, The Department of Defense actually banished flash drives from their facilities. While devices like the IronKey and other hardware solutions have helped improve some of the aspects of flash drive security MANY holes remain. Fujitsu is developing a software and hardware solution that will start to close the circle around USB flash storage devices and enterprise security.

Fujitsu's lowest level security takes the form of inserting a battery and a microprocessor onto the USB drive which can set auto-erase time limits on the flash drive. This way data can be auto deleted after a certain amount of time has elapsed. On top of that, Fujitsu is writing software that will be required in order to interact with the flash drive. Enterprise administrators will be able to specify which computers will be able to access the data on a flash drive and can delete the data on the drive if it access is attempted on an unapproved drive even once. Their new "File Redirect" solution will prevent data from being moved off of the flash drive and only allow it to be manipulated on the drive. As it's still in development there's no word of price or release date.