
His argument is disarmingly practical: protection works best when people have fewer chances to forget it. At SecureData, that idea has traveled from recovery labs to encrypted drives, remote controls and the chief executive's desk.

A chance meeting in Korea gave Jay Kim an idea. Nearly two decades later, his Kansas company is still trying to make serious encryption feel ordinary.
The Kansas security company learned that encrypting a drive was only half the job. The bigger business is helping governments and enterprises control what happens after the USB stick walks out the door.