IronKey
Brand of USB devices
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IronKey is the brand name of a family of encrypted USB portable storage devices owned by Kingston Digital, the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc.
IronKey S250 8GB encrypted USB flash drive | |
| Product type | USB flash drive |
|---|---|
| Owner | Kingston Technology |
| Previous owners | Imation |
| Website | www |
History
From 2005 to 2012, IronKey was an Internet security and privacy company based in California. IronKey's founding was partially funded by the U.S. federal government, with a grant of US$1.4 million through the Homeland Security Research Projects Agency.[1][2][3] Their products have been used by the U.S. government in various areas.[4][5]
Imation acquired IronKey in September 2011.[6] In October 2012, IronKey rebranded itself as Marble Security, and the IronKey brand became wholly owned by Imation.[7][8] As part of Imation, the IronKey portfolio includes products and intellectual property from the former IronKey, as well as technologies from Imation acquisitions of MXI Security and ENCRYPTX.[9][10]
On February 8, 2016, Kingston Technology Company, Inc., announced it had acquired the USB technology and assets of IronKey from Imation.[11] On the same day, DataLocker announced it had acquired Ironkey's Enterprise Management Service (EMS) and other assets from Imation. [12]
In November 2018, Kingston announced that the IronKey had new features and was now FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified.[13]
In early 2021, a reported 7,000 Bitcoin were stranded in an IronKey flash drive due to a forgotten password. The owner, programmer Stefan Thomas, did not utilize the Enterprise Management Service for password recovery. [14] In 2023, a company named Unciphered found a way to unlock IronKey USB sticks similar to the one Thomas used.[15]
Windows To Go portable workspaces
Among Imation's IronKey products are flash drives certified by Microsoft for Windows To Go.[16] Windows To Go is an enterprise feature of Windows 8 that enables the creation of a workspace that can be booted from a USB-connected external drive on PCs that meet Microsoft certification requirements, regardless of the operating system running on the PC. A Windows To Go product, the IronKey Workspace W300, received the Editors' Choice accolade from PC Magazine in February 2013.[17]
Products
Secure Portable Storage
- IronKey Enterprise S250 and D250 USB flash drives
- IronKey F200 Biometric Flash Drive
- IronKey Basic S250 and D250 USB flash drives
- IronKey F150 Flash Drive
- IronKey Personal S250 and D250 USB flash drives
- IronKey H100 External USB Hard Drive
- IronKey H200 Biometric External USB Hard Drive
- IronKey F100 Flash Drive
- IronKey D80 Flash Drive
- IronKey H80 External USB Hard Drive
- IronKey D300S USB Flash Drive
- IronKey D300SM USB Flash Drive
- Ironkey D500S USB Flash Drive
- IronKey S1000 Encrypted USB Flash Drive
IronKey Secure Workspaces
Windows 8:
- IronKey Workspace W700 Windows To Go (Microsoft certified, FIPS Certified)[18]
- IronKey Workspace W500 Windows To Go (Microsoft certified)[19]
- IronKey Workspace W300 Windows To Go (Microsoft certified)
Windows 7:
- IronKey Workspace MWES USB Flash Drive with Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard (MWES) edition software.
