Keywords: secure external hard disk, file safety, secure external hard drives, secure hard drive
Description
External hard-disk or USB drive attached to a system running on OSX is vulnerable, as it could be accessed through other user-profiles easily. Apart from that, if the network file sharing feature is enabled, the external storage device could be accessed by anyone having the authority to get logged into the network. Thus, no matter you encrypted the drive or particular files or not, any unauthorized user can access your data, steal records and make changes into that. What to do? Techvedic, being a leader in tech support, offers you practical and effective solution.
Recommended for: Apple OS X
Solution:
You need to set enable encryption and setup permission levels. Here is how-to:
1. Navigate to “Finder,” access your drive, right-click and select “Encrypt Drive.” Supply the password to use when prompted, and then wait for the drive to remount as an encrypted volume.
2. Select “Command-I” to seek information on the drive and enable permission. In the information window that appears, expand the “Sharing” section and click the “lock” to authenticate. Then uncheck the option to "Ignore Ownership on this volume." Now, you would be in a position to permit or restrict other users on your system or network.
Note: This will only work to manage access for non-administrator accounts -- admin accounts will always be able to grant themselves access to files and folders.
Sharing & Permission enlists all users including you, who are authorized to access the external hard-disk or USB storage. Even more, you can choose options like “Staff” or “Everyone” to provide mass access to the attached external storage medium.
The permission or restriction can be granted as follows:
Single-user access
Under the Sharing & Permissions section of the window, choose "no access" for the "staff" group (or simply select and remove this group altogether).
When finished, click the “small gear” menu and select the option to apply these settings to all enclosed items (this step is not needed on an empty drive).
Now, others who will try to get access to your drive, will get the "permission denied" error.
Multi-user access
To assign full read and write permission to staff, leave the drive’s permission at default settings. Now, navigate to the “Finder,” open the drive and create a folder on it to store your files. Now get information on this folder and set it so only your account is in the Sharing & Permissions list, with "read & write" access, and with all others set to "no access." Thus, you have setup permission enabling your account to view the files in this folder, and desisting others.
Approaching extra security measure, similar folder can be created against each account on the system. And at the end, all information can be collected on the drive itself with staff being allowed to have the “read only” permission.
The above settings, will allow authorized users to access drive, but they won’t be able to move files to their specific folder or to anybody else’s folder.
Congrats! You have successfully implemented the security settings for the external hard-disk. For further help, contact Techvedic’s computer helpdesk, as per below contact-detail:
U.S. +855-859-0057 (http://www.techvedic.com/)
U.K. +800-635-0716 (http://www.techvedic.co.uk/)
CA 1-855-749-5861 (http://www.techvedic.ca/)
AU 1-800-197-298 (http://www.techvedic.com.au/)
We would be more than happy to help you. We are available 24/7.
Description
External hard-disk or USB drive attached to a system running on OSX is vulnerable, as it could be accessed through other user-profiles easily. Apart from that, if the network file sharing feature is enabled, the external storage device could be accessed by anyone having the authority to get logged into the network. Thus, no matter you encrypted the drive or particular files or not, any unauthorized user can access your data, steal records and make changes into that. What to do? Techvedic, being a leader in tech support, offers you practical and effective solution.
Recommended for: Apple OS X
Solution:
You need to set enable encryption and setup permission levels. Here is how-to:
1. Navigate to “Finder,” access your drive, right-click and select “Encrypt Drive.” Supply the password to use when prompted, and then wait for the drive to remount as an encrypted volume.
2. Select “Command-I” to seek information on the drive and enable permission. In the information window that appears, expand the “Sharing” section and click the “lock” to authenticate. Then uncheck the option to "Ignore Ownership on this volume." Now, you would be in a position to permit or restrict other users on your system or network.
Note: This will only work to manage access for non-administrator accounts -- admin accounts will always be able to grant themselves access to files and folders.
Sharing & Permission enlists all users including you, who are authorized to access the external hard-disk or USB storage. Even more, you can choose options like “Staff” or “Everyone” to provide mass access to the attached external storage medium.
The permission or restriction can be granted as follows:
Single-user access
Under the Sharing & Permissions section of the window, choose "no access" for the "staff" group (or simply select and remove this group altogether).
When finished, click the “small gear” menu and select the option to apply these settings to all enclosed items (this step is not needed on an empty drive).
Now, others who will try to get access to your drive, will get the "permission denied" error.
Multi-user access
To assign full read and write permission to staff, leave the drive’s permission at default settings. Now, navigate to the “Finder,” open the drive and create a folder on it to store your files. Now get information on this folder and set it so only your account is in the Sharing & Permissions list, with "read & write" access, and with all others set to "no access." Thus, you have setup permission enabling your account to view the files in this folder, and desisting others.
Approaching extra security measure, similar folder can be created against each account on the system. And at the end, all information can be collected on the drive itself with staff being allowed to have the “read only” permission.
The above settings, will allow authorized users to access drive, but they won’t be able to move files to their specific folder or to anybody else’s folder.
Congrats! You have successfully implemented the security settings for the external hard-disk. For further help, contact Techvedic’s computer helpdesk, as per below contact-detail:
U.S. +855-859-0057 (http://www.techvedic.com/)
U.K. +800-635-0716 (http://www.techvedic.co.uk/)
CA 1-855-749-5861 (http://www.techvedic.ca/)
AU 1-800-197-298 (http://www.techvedic.com.au/)
We would be more than happy to help you. We are available 24/7.
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