With increasing pressure on organizations to protect & control client data, greater measures are needed to tackle the areas of concern & lax security, one of which is portable data products. Hypertec have responded to these concerns with the release of the Encrypt Plus USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash drives, offering government standard 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Encrypt Plus contain a private data section which is encrypted & accessible via a failsafe password, & a small read-only area which is seen upon startup. The combination of encryption & password make this a very secure method of carrying data: even if the device was opened & the flash chips removed, the data held therein would still be inaccessible.