Spyrus PocketVault P-384E: MicroSD Cards Stored on Encrypting USB Flash Drive

SPYRUS, Inc. announced the PocketVault P-384E, introducing a change in the encrypting USB storage device industry.

Protected by U.S. Patent 6,003,135 and foreign patents, it enables multiple removable secured by SPYRUS microSD cards to be used with an encrypting USB drive, enabling virtually infinite memory capacity. This design results in the lowest TCO for any USB memory drive by virtue of sharing the single encrypting USB drive among as many microSD cards as a user requires.

Another feature is the data-at-rest security provided by the physical media separation of different types of data sets such as health records, financial records, and business data, with each set of data stored in its own physical microSD card. No data movement or contamination through an electronic memory partition is possible. Each microSD card can have its own logon password to enable encryption and decryption specific to that card. Data on each microSD is cryptographically paired with its USB drive and can be decrypted only by the same USB drive. User can optionally select a read-only mode of protection upon logon, which protects any stored data on the microSD card from being corrupted by malware from untrusted computers.

“The Pocketvault p-384e is the only expandable encrypting storage system and is a true disruptive design change in the world of encrypting usb storage drives,” said Tom Dickens, Spyrus COO. “The unique capabilities enabled by our patented product design extend the lifetime of user and enterprise investments for increasingly mobile ecosystems without compromising the strength of data security protection.“

He explained, “All this has been achieved while preserving all of the enhanced Made-in U.S.A. cryptographic facilities that make the Windows/Mac/Linux multiplatform PocketVault P-384 USB product line the strongest commercial encrypting drives available anywhere.“

If you run out of data storage capacity you can purchase additional microSD cards instead of buying a USB storage device. For an enterprise, it represents the lowest cost per gigabyte for memory as the needs for portable peripheral storage grow with the adoption of hybrid cloud computing and BYOD environments.

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It protects the transport of data with cryptographic technology. It uses the latest XTS-AES 256-bit mode for full disk encryption instead of the older, weaker AES-CBC encryption mode. It also implements elliptic curve cryptography, adopted by the US government for both unclassified and most classified information types.

Key generation, key storage, and key management functions are executed within the FIPS 140-2 level 3 epoxy-sealed boundaries of the Rosetta Micro hardware security module that is embedded within the drive. Moreover, as in other encrypting products, passwords do not exist on the drive in any form and are reconstituted for each logon process to unlock the drive, making them unsusceptible to attacks. All this functionality is implemented within the USB security device and is applied to all data on each Secured by SPYRUS microSD.