Imation IronKey S1000 USB 3.0 Flash Key With Hardware-Encrypted

Imation Corp. announced IronKey S1000 USB 3.0 Flash Drive to its IronKey product line.

The S1000 builds upon IronKey’s history of providing secure USB storage devices, offering customers a choice between IronKey’s USB 2.0 devices as well as the performance USB 3.0 solutions. The S1000 protects files with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Level 31 and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – approved XTS-AES 256-bit encryption, ensuring compliance with the stringent government and industry regulations while allowing workers to remain mobile. IronKey offers double the performance of competing hardware-encrypted USB 3.0 SuperSpeed flash drives and has increased the capacity of its secure storage flash drives to 128GB, enabling users to store and retrieve the most data-intensive files quickly and easily, thus increasing user productivity. The S1000 is backed by an lifetime warranty and is availabe in two versions: IronKey Basic S1000 and the centrally managed IronKey Enterprise S1000.

“The increasing need for employees to work remotely has created problems for IT,” said Ken Jones, VP, engineering and product management, IronKey. “Employees want, and need, access to their data regardless of location. The challenge, especially for highly regulated industries such as healthcare, is how to keep that data safe when according to research the majority of data breaches result from physical loss or theft of devices. IronKey’s highly secure, managed USB drives provide the mobility features – including performance, durability, and capacity – needed to enable a productive mobile workforce while ensuring the security of the organization’s data.“

The S1000 is at read speeds up to 400 MB/s and write speeds up to 300 MB/s. It combines the USB 3.0 technology with a military-grade, ruggedized, portable design that resists physical tampering and will self-destruct if unauthorized attempts to physically obtain access to the data are made. In addition, the S1000 protects against attacks such as BadUSB to which other USB vendors are vulnerable. The company is offering a lifetime warranty for its S1000 family.

The Enterprise S1000 adds management capabilities enabling customers to centrally administer access and usage policies across thousands of drives with the cloud-based IronKey Enterprise Management Service, the same platform used to manage other IronKey devices. This secure online interface makes it to enforce device-specific policies, allow users to securely recover lost passwords, take control over where devices can be used and even remotely disable or destroy lost or stolen drives. Customers who purchase IronKey Basic S1000 drives can upgrade their devices to the Enterprise version at any time with the addition of the management platform.

The IronKey Enterprise and Basic S1000 are available through Imation Mobile Security channel partners; pricing begins at $139 for 4GB. IronKey Basic S1000 is available through the company’s eStore. On-premises management of the Enterprise S1000 with the IronKey Enterprise Management Server will be available in early Q2 2015.