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Kingston IronKey introduces its first USB-C drive with hardware encryption

5 Jan. (Portaltic/EP) –

The ‘hardware’ encrypted storage line of Kingston has expanded with the company’s first USB Type-C drive, Vault Privacy 50Cdesigned to protect user data.

Kingston IronKey product portfolio grows at CES 2023 with Vault Privacy 50C (IKVP50C), a USB Type-C drive, the company’s first of its kind, that protects user data against BadUSB -a USB with a malicious program- and brute force attacks.

The unit has FIPS 197 certified, XTS-AES 256-bit hardware encryption, multiple password option with complex or passphrase modes, as the company details in a press release.

The ‘hardware’ encrypted storage line includes, in addition to the VP50 series, the KP200 FIPS 140-3 Level 3 certified (pending) with alphanumeric keyboard, and the VP80ES, Kingston’s first OS-independent external SSD with a color touchscreen.

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