Although USB thumb drives have become the floppy disks of the 21st century, many of them suffer from pretty fatal flaws: most of the time, anybody with a USB port can tap into any data you’ve stored on a flash drive. So government, military, and even some enterprise and corporate users—not to mention superspies—angle for something better. IronKey aims to deliver with its new S200 USB flash drive, which the company claims is the first and only USB drive to meet U.S. government FIPS 140-2, Security Level 3 standards. That means that not only does the drive over hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption, but the cryptographic module itself is designed to be tamper resistant and can respond to attempts to physically access or modify the module.
