July 29th, 2009
Dead-Finger Tech: My three "must have" bits of tech!
When I was asked to come up with a list of my “Dead-Finger Tech” of things that my IT day revolves around, it took me about 2.5 seconds to come up with my top three things.
Gadget: IronKey 8GB
I have literally hundreds of USB flash drives littered about the place, but my every-day carry is an IronKey 8GB. The problem with regular flash drives is that I either had to encrypt the data that was on the drive or just take a chance that I wouldn’t lose it. I don’t have this any more thanks to the IronKey. Everything in strongly encrypted automatically.
The IronKey is a USB flash drive with a difference. Not only do you have an ultra-tough and waterproof drive where the delicate innards are protected by being encased in hard epoxy and then then wrapped in a tough metal shell (believe me, this thing is tough) but you get all the benefits of always-on hardware encryption. No more having to mess about with software driver of applications. Because all the encryption is done by hardware all the data is protected against cold-boot and brute force attacks.
At $199 for 8GB, the IronKey isn’t cheap, but it’s also no ordinary flash drive. If you fear losing your data, then the IronKey is a mush-have gadget.
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