Can tell you from experience in healthcare, the difference between a regular usb stick and one that has a verifiable security level is that if you lose track of

Can tell you from experience in healthcare, the difference between a regular usb stick and one that has a verifiable security level is that if you lose track of a stick with a research data set on it, it's the difference between doing local incident response, and individually notifying 1m+ people their health information has been breached. If it's on a USB stick, you've already lost control, but there was a case at a hospital where they avoided that cost because the lost device was encrypted.