Software

ATP includes a small security application which can divide the USB stick into a public and a private partition. Access to the private partition is restricted by a password. Initially the device ships with only a public partition and the security application is stored there. When you change the partition layout the whole USB stick will be erased, but after that the security application will be automatically copied back to the stick.


The first screen is used to "log in" to the drive's private partition. After entering the correct password, the application will switch the drive's current drive letter to access the private partition. At this time you can't access the public partition because its drive letter is used.


On the second page you can change the password and create a password hint.


The third screen "Partition" lets you adjust how much space you use for the public and the private partition. If you don't want to use the security feature, just set Security Disk Size to 0 MB, which is the shipping configuration.

When I tried to use ATP's software on another USB stick it worked perfectly fine. I also spent a couple of minutes trying to access data from the secure partition without entering the password and could not get to it. The software "shrinks" the drive size, so even when you read directly from the physical medium you can not get to the data. However, it is certainly possible to adjust the disk size back to the full medium size to access the data. So, while the included software does offer some sort of protection, please do not store your top secret rocket launch codes there.