Black Umbrella, a disaster-preparedness company use IronKey for critical document storage and organization. President of Black Umbrella, Catherine Hooper says: “We scan, store and digitize people’s critical documents, wills, trusts, powers of attorney, insurance documents. We put them on a special, secure thumb drive called an IronKey. “ Whilst only a small part of what […]
Top Ten Reviews provides a technical and in-depth review of the IronKey Personal D200, a must-read for the techies among you. Key points: The encryption is hardware-based 256-bit AES validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to meet the Level 3 criteria of FIPS 140-2. AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard adopted by […]
In another warning story, this time from the USA, internet marketing firm Epsilon was the target of a specific attack, allowing customers’ confidential data to be exposed. The theft of the confidential information (in this case, email addresses) can enable hackers to use phishing to trick the customer into revealing further confidential information. In this […]
A key feature of IronKey’s security means that incorrect password attempts over 10, results in the hardware encryption chip self destructing. Here are some handy hints to ensure that you aren’t the cause of your own IronKey self destructing: store the password in your personal account on my.ironkey.com securely backup your IronKey files on your […]
Many users ask us about secure web browsing on the Ironkey. This is enabled through the built-in FireFox browser, activated by plugging the IronKey into a computer, clicking the Mozilla Firefox icon in the control panel, which opens a secure internet connection and connects to the web using the Secure Session Service. The Secure Session […]
So the arrest warrants for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may or may not be valid, but have we not been taught a valuable lesson about the importance of privacy? Some of the secrets revealed show Americans and the world the depth of thought that has gone on in some of the key world players. Who […]
