A Secure and Reliable Method to Protect USB Data

Alycia Sebastian, K. Siva Sankar

Abstract


With technology advancement people have started using different type of memory devices for storing data and keeping it secure has become concern in today’s world. Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drives are leading portable storage device for storage and easy transfer of data from one computer to another. The usage of USB has grown exponentially and without security the data on the disk is at risk. Nowadays USB manufacturers offer password protection and fingerprint authentication to secure the USB data. In this paper, USB is devised as a highly secured portable boot medium with fingerprint authentication to secure the data.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.11591/APTIKOM.J.CSIT.34

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