LG Vaccine Drive
LG is about to launch a new thumb drive called the LG Vaccine Drive, which comes with antivirus software installed on it, apparently the drive will monitor data coming in and out of the drive. I really think this is a great achievement and one that will be adopted by more flash drive manufacturers. I will be getting one soon to review in more depth, I am particularly interested in the trigger to update the anti-virus software.
What we will start seeing is that Flash drives will become more intelligent and will essentially function as stand alone systems complete with processor and their own OS. Really this is the only way to secure the devices, as we have seen it is quite easy to circumvent password protected and encrypted drives, the drives themselves need to be smarter and be able to evade security risks.