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Your mobile-charging policy, enforced by hardware

The FBI advised travelers to avoid public USB charging; the FCC recommends charge-only hardware. For organizations, that advice is a policy question: how do you make safe charging the default for people who are always on the move? (FBI advisory, Apr 2023 ↗)

What's actually at stake

Espionage & data exposure

Traveling executives and field staff charge wherever power exists. A compromised port is a path to credentials, files, and connected systems — the kind of exposure that turns one phone into an organizational incident.

Compliance obligations

Data-protection regimes hold organizations responsible for reasonable safeguards. A written mobile-charging policy backed by physical controls is easier to defend than one that relies on every employee tapping the right prompt.

Incident costs

IBM puts the global average cost of a data breach at $4.45 million in 2023. Hardware that removes a whole attack surface for the price of a cable is cheap insurance.

Source ↗

Honest note: publicly documented juice-jacking incidents are rare — agencies frame their guidance as precautionary. Organizations buy down tail risk; that's what policies are for. Our plain-English risk explainer →

Three ways organizations work with us

Fleet & workforce programs

Equip traveling teams with switchable cables and a one-line policy: “public charging happens in protected mode.” The status light makes compliance visible — a training point that takes ten seconds to teach.

Hospitality & venues

Hotels, lounges, and conference venues can offer guests charging that is safe by construction — a genuine amenity in a world where the FBI tells travelers to distrust public USB ports.

Licensing & integration

Cable and accessory manufacturers can license the patented switch/status technology to build differentiated secure-charging lines. Exclusive and non-exclusive structures are both open.

The market is moving toward secure-by-design accessories

The global USB cable market was valued at $12.73 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach $69.86 billion by 2031 (Allied Market Research) — and regulatory attention to data protection keeps growing. Security features are how commodity cables stop being commodities.

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