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Secure Files with Your IronKey

Rai

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Working as a system administrator requires a lot of memory power with all the servers that I am managing at work. Not to say the huge amount of passwords that go with it. And I must admit that my memory is not to be trusted (hey, even Einstein once suggested not to trust your memory!) with these credentials that if compromised or forgotten, will mean death to my career.

Anyway, my boss from our California office gave me a little piece of technology that I carry around with me and though I have read it a few times before, I never got the chance to own one. I am talking about the IronKey, a military-grade secure flash drive that is designed to protect the stored files.

This drive claims to be the most secure drive in the world. It’s design lies in its hardware-based AES encryption that resists any attempt to bypass the password, and provides a tight security for the drive. It also protects your encrypted data from brute-force attacks by initiating a self-destruct process if the password is typed in incorrectly after the tenth try. Any attempts also to tamper the casing will trigger the drive to self-destruct the data, making sure that no one will get the data even if physically tampered.

The bundled software also provides the security needed to access the files by asking for a password to unlock the USB drive. Locked drive means no read-write access whatsoever. Secure backup is also provided so encrypted backups of the contents can be created without compromising the data.

All in all, IronKey is perfect for confidential files and should be the standard of all USB flash drives.

3 Comments to “Secure Files with Your IronKey”

Arthur Coleman August 14, 2008 at 12:24 am
Thanks for the great comments about our product.

fyi there is another version of IronKey – called IronKey Personal – which has a Password Manager that manages all your logins/passwords on the web, and portable FireFox with something called IronKey Secure Sessions. Secure Sessions allows you to browse the web anonymously and securely, and also helps prevent pharming attacks due to the way we’ve implemented the backend of the service.
wecky August 20, 2008 at 2:29 pm
nice flash drive…ang lupeet!
tanong ko lang…pano kung accidentally nabagsak mo sya…mga 6 feet.baka tampering na yun.
Luc J September 24, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I think the security is really, really important, but the prospect of the password manager is even more appealing to me. I must have at least 50 user names / passwords by now. That should take care of that problem then.
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