Imagine leaving work for the weekend, early no doubt, with big plans for a friday night. To leave early you know that the work just isn't complete yet so you save a few spreadsheets to a USB thumb drive and head for your car. Without ever leaving home you begin your friday night whatevers and the next thing that happens is you're waking up saturday afternoon. Needing to work on those spreadsheets before monday you frantically look for you USB drive-never to be found.

Now the question of leaking valuable information, code, and sales figures races through your head. What to do? Nothing...it's too late.

This is why companies like DriveSentry are releaseing products to help secure data on usb drives, laptops, PDAs, etc. Take a read and a look at the PR: Explosive Growth in Portable Storage Devices leads to Major Concerns over Data Security