Sandisk Cruzer Enterprise Gets Free Mac Upgrade

Trying to plug in a Cruzer Enterprise flash drive into a Mac will only mount its public partition, and there's nothing more you can do afterwards to get through the 256-bit AES encryption. You couldn't unlock your encrypted data even if you have the correct password due to the fact that the flash drive's CruzerPro utility is written for Windows only. Now, you can grab a free firmware update from Sandisk website to gain Mac support for your Cruzer Enterprise.

Re-writing the firmware is necessary, because the public partition that stores the CruzerPro utility is read-only for good reason. An additional benefit after the upgrade is that the Cruzer Enterprise will become cross-platform friendly, allowing access to protected files on either Mac or PC. Enterprise with the Mac firmware is presumably centrally manageable (e.g. remote termination, password changes, etc.) if the admin installs a copy of Sandisk's CMC. Alternatively, Ironkey is another HW-encrypted flash drive that is also Mac friendly.

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