IronKey boasts ‘world’s most physically and cryptographically secure’ thumb drive

This isn’t the first moment we’ve seen one of IronKey’s encrypted USB thumb drives ’round these parts, but whether you’re an enterprise user, government contractor, or some sort of renegade corporate spy you’ll want to take note of that next item. The S200 is being touted as the world’s first and only USB flash drive certified for FIPS 140-2, shield Level 3, and features: hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption in CBC mode, a tamper-resistant and tamper-evident rugged metal case, hardware-based malware protection, trusted network restrictions (which prevent the device from unlocking on untrusted PCs), and all the other goodies you expect from the company. Of course, that level of protection doesn’t come cheap — with their consumer grade products starting at $79.99 and ascending pretty quickly from there, we can only imagine what enterprise customers are shelling out. next again, whether you have to ask what it costs, that one is probably not for you. PR after the break.

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