Encrypt USB drive

[Sam]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to encrypt a USB drive so that its content cannot be downloaded, specifically videos?

Thanks

[Micheal Espinola]

"Downloaded" - you mean not readable/copyable? Good encryption will make the data unreadable, although still copyable.

Since you are talking about videos specifically, are you interested in forms of DRM?

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[Philip Elder]

In Windows right click and enable BitLocker To Go on the drive. Set a strong pass phrase and drop that into your password manager.

 

For machines that the flash drive gets plugged in to regularly the pass phrase can be entered and saved though a password manager is just as good to hit the password prompt with the unlock code.

 

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[Henry Awad]

You can use Bitlocker to encrypt the drive just as you would any other disk. There are other encryption tools on the market and probably some open source ones too.

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[Belanger, Xavier B]

Hi,

 

USB flash drives can be encrypted with BitLocker (I’m assuming a MS Windows environment), like any other fixed drive.

 

[ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-life-hacks/privacy-and-safety/how-and-why-to-encrypt-usb-flash-drive ]

 

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Hi,

Does anyone know how to encrypt a USB drive so that its content cannot be downloaded, specifically videos?

Thanks

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[Shawn K. Hall]

Using bitlocker, assuming F: drive:

manage-bde -on F: -RecoveryKey "%USERPROFILE%\bde" -UsedSpaceOnly -sync
-SkipHardwareTest -RecoveryPassword

In order to access the drive the person would need to decrypt it first,
and that would require access to the keys backed up to your user profile
("%USERPROFILE%\bde") or the recovery password (displayed on screen).
Your user account would be able to access it if you enable autounlock.

If the person has administrative access to your computer or your user
account then they could get the keys.

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[Sam]

I apologize for not explaining it clearly earlier. What I'm trying to do is share some video trainings with someone, but I don't want them to be able to copy the data from the USB. Essentially, I only want them to be able to watch the videos.

[Wright, John M]

I’ll be surprised if there’s a technological solution to that problem.  If you trust someone with the data, it will likely be susceptible to copying; if you don’t trust the person to be able to copy, you shouldn’t give them the data.

 

I don’t know a solution beyond bringing them to a room, showing the video, then sending them away.

 

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[Henry Awad]

This could be better achieved through a cloud sharing solution where you can allow users to view the content of the drive but not allow downloading. 

Block downloads for view-only files in SharePoint and OneDrive - Microsoft Support

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[Kurt Buff]

Bitlocker To Go?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating-system-security/data-protection/bitlocker/faq#bitlocker-to-go

3rd party AV/EDR/XDR suite?

Do you need it to automatically deploy, or will it be manual?

Kurt

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