OASIS Member News: OneLock Thwarts Data Leakage via USB Storage Devices

[Rosanna Yip <rwyyip@cecid.hku.hk>]

Hong Kong SAR, Peoples Republic of China – 17 March 2010 – Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is pleased to share a proved, practical and powerful solution – OneLock – to combat data leakage. It offers an unprecedented level of data protection for any off-the-shelf USB storage devices.

 

Thanks to project funding from the HKSAR Government’s Innovation & Technology Commission, CECID has recently researched and developed a novel technology, Multi-Factor Data Protection, which aims to enhance data protection over the current existing solutions in the market while staying as easy-to-use as possible. An application – OneLock – has been devised to implement this technology to protect data in USB storage devices.

 

With OneLock, you can turn any off-the-shelf USB storage into a vault. Data in the storage device is encrypted with AES cryptology which is a highly acclaimed data protection technology and is adopted by many governments to protect top secret level documents. Conventionally, a user-defined password is used to unlock the encryption key. To improve data security, retrieval of encrypted content is confined to your designated computers using the right password. In case your USB storage is lost or being stolen, even a hacker can crack your password, without your designated computer, the information there can’t be read. Furthermore, OneLock completely eliminates data leakage threat by allowing you the data owner to destroy the encryption key planted in the designated computer, sealing the lost USB storage forever.

 

To ensure data privacy in your USB storage, check out OneLock NOW. It’s free for download from http://community.cecid.hku.hk/index.php/product/onelock/.