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Kingston IronKey D500S Hardware-Encrypted USB Drive

Kingston IronKey D500S Is World’s First and Only TAA-Compliant, FIPS 140-3 Level 3 Hardware-Encrypted Drive With Trusted Supply Chain
Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, announces its award-winning Kingston IronKey™ D500S hardware-encrypted USB flash drive has received NIST FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation. Designed and assembled by Kingston in California, D500S is the world’s first and only FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validated drive with a TAA-compliant and trusted supply chain.

When the IronKey D500S was being designed in 2020, the business goal was to make it a best-in-class hardware-encrypted drive with XTS-AES 256-bit encryption and the newest NIST security standard, FIPS 140-3 Level 3. But, an additional goal was to also go beyond TAA-compliance, which only verifies the legally-declared Country Of Origin (COO). The D500S was designed to ensure that all its critical components and manufacturing processes fully meet TAA and CMMC compliance requirements.

Critical drive components include the following:

- Secure Microprocessor managing all encryption and authentication processes
- Digitally-signed firmware for the Secure Microprocessor
- Drive software launcher, which includes multi-password authentication and feature setting...

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