Today, we are going to talk about something very important: security. Now, I'm not going to go completely left field and talk about the importance of hardening systems and the like; quite the contrary, we're spending today talking about portable security. Advances have been made in the realm of portable security; today we will be reviewing the IronKey S200 1 gigabyte flash drive. Mehr erfahren

Security threats and compliance requirements are on the rise. With worms like Conficker maliciously winding its way through corporate networks, it is imperative that organizations implement and enforce comprehensive mobile data security polices. IronKey Enterprise with Remote Management Service combines hardware-encrypted IronKey USB flash drives with a powerful tracking and management solution. Mehr erfahren

IronKey is well-known for its tough USB drives. The company pitches the IronKey Personal S200 to consumers but has other models for enterprise and government clients. I spoke with IronKey CMO David Tripier today about an IronKey initiative that's currently available for those big enterprise and government clients but will eventually trickle down to the consumer space. Various fancy monickers are associated with the technology: "Trusted Virtual Computing," for example. But the catchier name is "PC on a Stick." Mehr erfahren

Becrypt, a leading provider of information assurance solutions has today announced its intent to integrate Trusted Client solution with IronKey’s secure portable devices, providing a bootable trusted computing environment enabling mobile workers to have secure access to corporate data and networks from managed and unmanaged PCs. The combined solution offers a bootable trusted computing platform that provides mobile workers with data protection and secure remote access to corporate networks from managed and unmanaged PCs. Mehr erfahren

Is this the future of online banking? US company IronKey has come up with a USB drive that can be used to access accounts virtually without involving the operating system or applications that cause so many of today's security problems. Aimed at companies that want to protect corporate bank accounts, Trusted Access for Banking is actually a standard IronKey USB drive that runs a walled or 'hardened' Linux virtual environment inside the PC's OS. It comes complete with its own browser hardwired to access only a particular bank service, and incorporates RSA Secure ID tokens for authentication. Mehr erfahren