Flash drives inherently grant users both unrestricted read and write privilege but such access rights may not be practical for vertical market applications.

For instance, medical and industrial control systems are mostly offline or air-gapped for security reasons. Updating firmware and patches for these critical infrastructures therefore relies on the use of direct-attached storage (e.g. flash drives). Off-the-shelf drives will not suffice as they don’t guarantee data security against sabotage. In such cases, companies would want a peace-of-mind solution to meet their security requirements of dispatching read-only drives.

Honeywell recently released a cybersecurity report claiming that 37% of threats were specifically designed to utilize removable media, which almost doubled from 19% in 2020.…