Kingston Digital comes with the Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 50 series, a new line of USB memory sticks to securely store data. USB-A drives are 256-bit hardware encrypted and support various security features. brute force-attack. Encrypted SSDs are available in configurations with 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 gigabytes of storage.
Kingston promises several ways to secure stored data. Users can set a ‘regular’ password between 6 and 16 characters, but can also use a PIN code between 10 and 64 characters, phrases, words and lyrics.
There is also the option to set separate passwords for administrator, user and one-time emergency use. In the last case, a just ready-mode can be set so that the user with the emergency password can only view the data. Admin can change one-time password recovery or reset for the user. With ten incorrect login attempts, the user is blocked and only the administrator can reset the password. If the administrator messes it up ten times, everything on the drive is deleted.
All versions of IronKey Vault Privacy 50 use the USB 3.2 protocol and have read and write speeds of 250 and 180 MB/s respectively. The variant with only 256GB of storage is slightly slower; this IronKey VP50 achieves speeds of 230 and 150 MB/s respectively. Safe sticks will be available from 7 June and will cost between 81 Euros (8GB) and 323 Euros (265GB).
Source: Kingston Digital
Source: Hardware Info
