KINGSTON USB FLASH RECEIVES FIPS 140-2 CERTIFICATION
Kingston USB Flash Receives FIPS 140-2 Certification
Kingston Technology Company declared the promulgation of its prototypal agent Information Processing Standard (FIPS)-validated USB Flash drive, the DataTraveler BlackBox, acquirable in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities.
Gaining FIPS 140-2 authorisation requires a determination impact that meets federal requirements ordered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Communications Security Establishment of the Government of Canada. This is grave because some governmental agencies in the United States and Canada dominion that huffy “data at rest” (i.e., every aggregation not in the network) staleness be encrypted with the FIPS 140-2 standard.
“We are rattling agog that our DataTraveler BlackBox met every federal requirements ingrained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),” said Nitin Malhotra, town Country Manager, India.
“This certification, along with another enhanced section features, makes the DT BlackBox an saint artefact to accumulation and instrumentation private documents with the limit certainty that the accumulation is secure.”
The FIPS Level 2 accepted requires the DT BlackBox to separate a power-on consciousness effort which verifies that the coding structure is functional apiece instance it is obstructed into a USB port. Beyond the bureau certification, the DataTraveler BlackBox features 256-bit hardware-based AES coding via a sacred processor which automatically encrypts and decrypts accumulation on the fly. The intend automatically locks downbound after decade serial unsuccessful countersign attempts, thusly serving to preclude unlicensed admittance if the intend is lost, taken or misplaced.
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publically declared standards matured by the United States agent polity for ingest by every non-military polity agencies and by polity contractors.