Personal

Overview

Keep Your Private Life Private

There’s only one you, so protect yourself out there. The result of extensive R&D and the collaboration of some of the world’s leading experts in cryptography and the Internet, IronKey is the world’s most secure flash drive. It safeguards your files, keeps your online life private, and protects you from people who want to steal everything from your identity to your cash.

The blazingly fast onboard Cryptochip protects your data on the fly. Everything you do on your computer is instantly scrambled, and no one–not even sophisticated hackers–can break the military-grade encryption. And all this advanced technology comes packed in a tamperproof, military-grade waterproof case.

Your IronKey also comes loaded with a secure private browser that lets you surf anonymously and protects your passwords whenever you go online. It also connects to a range of valuable IronKey services that simplify your digital lifestyle while giving you added peace of mind.

Encrypt Your Data

The IronKey Personal secure USB flash drive is a revolutionary personal security device that ensures your personal data stays in and other people stay out. It keeps your private files safe from prying eyes. Store up to 16GB of data with fast, reliable flash memory and military-grade encryption ensures only you can access your files. All this in the coolest, toughest design you’ll find anywhere.

Hardware Encryption for Bulletproof Security

Strong, AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption protects all data stored on your IronKey Personal drive. Unlike the “software” encryption sometimes used on personal computers, a special cryptographic chip inside the IronKey Personal drive encrypts all data stored on the drive with military-grade encryption (IronKey uses the same encryption algorithm that the U.S. government has approved for storing Top Secret data). No one can access files stored on an IronKey drive unless they have the correct password. All encryption and password verification is performed in hardware. This security shell resists even the most sophisticated attacks employed by professional hackers.

Surf Safely

Who’s watching you? Whenever you surf the Web others can glean the details of your online life–not just by accessing data stored at your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or websites, but also by surreptitiously monitoring traffic on wired broadband network connections as well as on a wireless connection at a hotel, coffee shop or even your residential neighborhood. People living in your home can also monitor your online activity without you knowing it. The information obtained can include which sites you visit, the IP address of your computer, and even the content of your email and private communications.

IronKey Protects Your Privacy from People Spying on Your Network Connection

IronKey helps you defend against this type of digital surveillance, which threatens your personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities, and relationships. Every IronKey Personal drive comes with an onboard Mozilla Firefox Web browser that lets you safely surf the Web using the IronKey Secure Sessions service.

IronKey Secure Sessions Service triple-encrypts all your Internet Web surfing traffic (including your URLs) between your PC and the Secure Sessions servers, preventing anyone who might be monitoring your network connection from capturing information such as the URLs you visit. The Secure Sessions servers also act as a proxy, which means they retrieve the Web page for you without revealing your identity, and then present it to you. In this way the site you visit will not receive any particulars about you (your system, your IP address, etc.) because the proxy isolates your computer from the outside world. It’s an ideal way to make Web email and Web surfing more secure and confidential.

Protect Your Identity

Prevent Identity Theft

There’s only one you—so it pays to protect the data that identifies you in today’s digital world. However, avoiding identity theft is no longer as simple as shredding credit card offers or ignoring clumsy emails scams from Nigerian princes who promise untold riches in exchange for your bank information. The explosion in online banking and e-commerce—as well as the popularity of personal finance software—has spawned a new species of global identity thieves. And these cybercriminals steal confidential information from computer users with unprecedented sophistication.

Ways Cybercriminals Can Steal Your Identity:

Hacking into your computer by using everything from simple password guessing software to global networks of remotely hijacked computers (Botnets) that can hammer away at password protection with millions of tries
Infiltrating your computer with viruses and worms that steal information and send it back to the hacker over the Internet
Installing software (keyloggers) on your computer that can log your keystrokes when you type your username and password to a website
Redirecting your Web browser to fake phishing websites that look convincingly like legitimate sites, where hackers capture your confidential information

The High Cost of Losing Your Identity

The Federal Trade Commission estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year. And identity theft is a serious matter. It may cause you to be denied loans for education, housing or cars because of negative information on your credit reports, or even cause you to lose out on job opportunities. Damage to your credit can also mean identity theft victims pay more for everything from home loans to car insurance. In rare cases, they may even be arrested for crimes they did not commit.
While some victims resolve identity theft quickly, others spend hundreds of dollars and days or months trying to repair the damage to their credit records and reputation.

How IronKey Protects You from Identity Theft—Online and Offline

A good first line of defense against identity theft is to use your secure IronKey drive to store all your personal and financial information. That way, if your device is lost or stolen, your data is protected with the military-grade IronKey encryption. By using the IronKey backup software, you will also have a securely protected copy of all your critical information that you can save onto your PC.

In addition to strong encryption, IronKey Personal provides:

An Identity Manager application that securely stores your usernames and passwords and automatically populates the fields when you visit a website. This not only protects you from keyloggers, but also makes it easy to use stronger passwords because you don’t need to remember long, complicated strings of characters.
Strong anti-malware defenses to prevent crimeware, keyloggers, Trojan Horses and other malware from infecting your drive and potentially stealing your private information.
VeriSign VIP One-Time Password verification to protect your financial data by providing a highly secure way to authenticate with online financial services such as your eBay and PayPal account.
The IronKey SecureSessions service to prevent people from spying on your Internet traffic, while also providing secure DNS services to help assure that you are not visiting a spoofed website used to perpetrate a phishing or pharming scam.

Manage Your Passwords

Forget About Remembering all those Usernames and Passwords

The IronKey Personal drive provides an Identity Manager application that securely recalls them with one-click ease whenever you visit a password-protected website. It also allows you to use stronger passwords, with longer and more complicated strings of characters that would otherwise be too difficult to remember. For added security, your IronKey drive includes a virtual keyboard. So when you do need to type in a user name or password it prevents keylogging software from capturing your keystrokes.

The Identity Manager also lets you back up all your passwords to the online IronKey service so that you can recover them if your drive is lost or stolen. The IronKey servers are housed in an ultra-secure data center—even IronKey personnel cannot access your stored passwords.