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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. (more…)