A secure flash drive to be truly protected against breaches must be controlled from a central control server. Anything less then this places the flash drive at risk. Recently the US Military was forced to put a ban on the use of flash drives because many personnel were not utilizing a secure flash drive. Once the threat was recognized the only way to get control was to place a ban on the use of all flash drives. Without a secure flash drive controlled from a central server the only way to safeguard the operating system is to put a system wide ban on the use of all flash drives. This situation could have easily been avoided with the flash drive system produced by SanDisk Enterprise.
A secure flash drive also eliminates still another threat that exists and that is in the manner in which data is transferred. A solution for the US Military should have been to implement a secure flash drive for their personnel like the ones produced by SanDisk Enterprise. They use the AES 256-bit encryption to protect data from security breaches. Flash drives that receive or store data that is not encrypted during the transfer process as well as after the transfer is complete are vulnerable to a breach. In the event a secure flash drive transmission is intercepted it is going to be useless because the encryption will prevent access to the data contained in the transfer.