A USB stick is the most reliable solution for data portability. Within the limit of available storage space, photos, movies, documents, programs, applications and other data can be saved more or less important.
The USB stick, however, has a big disadvantage. The smaller it is, the higher the probability of losing it, and the data stored on it will reach foreign persons or people who should not have access to its content.
The best solution to protect our data stored on a flash drive (USB stick), it is Encrypting with its password.
How can we encrypt and parole a USB stick on macos or bone x
1. First of all, we connect the stick to the poppy and make sure that they are not the data we need. The whole contents will be deleted during the encryption process.
2. We open the application Disk Utility (application installed on all OS X / macos systems) and select from the left, Flash Drive we want to encrypt. In our case: Kingston Datatraveler Media 2.0.
3. After selecting it, we click the button “Erase” / “Clear” FROM The top of the Disk Utility application. In the box that opens we choose a name for USB memory (“Encrypted memories” in our case), and at “Format” We select the option: Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)
4.. A dialog box will be opened where you are required to enter the encryption password twice and a “hint” to remind you what password you chose.
5. Click “Choose” then click “Erase” in the other dialog box. The encryption process will stress all the existing data on the USB memory and set a password to access the data.
At the end of the encryption process, you have a USB stick Parolat.
Done. ;-)
Disconnect and reconnect USB memory to Mac to test if it has been properly encrypted. When reconnecting will ask you Password set by you to encrypted formatting.
You can choose to check the box “Remember this password in my keychain” In order not to need to enter your password each time you access the USB stick from your Mac.
As a complement, the stored content will not be accessed in any way from a Windows PC.
