Originally launched in late 2018, the Aegis Secure Key 3NX employs the most recent Apricorn Secure Key encryption chipset whereas delivering cooler working temperatures and a wider vary of storage capacities than its predecessor, the Secure Key 3z.
The 3NX FIPS validation comes only one month behind the discharge of its sister product, the Secure Key 3NXC, which is similar machine however replaces the standard USB “A” connector with a USB 3.2 C-type connector; the primary USB C encrypted flash key to market. “Initially, the 3NX was designed as a lower cost alternative to the FIPS validated Secure Key 3z,” stated Kurt Markley, Apricorn’s Director of Sales. “While the NX has all of the same security features as all of our other devices, it addressed the following encrypted flash key market needs: cooler operating temperatures, a wider (lower) range of storage capacities to better optimize the spend on devices, and lower price points for large corporate deployments that don’t require FIPS. As the NX began to catch on, requests from companies requiring FIPS validation compelled us to obtain FIPS 140-2 level 3 validation on this device as well.”
Like all Aegis Secure Drives and Secure Keys, the 3NX comes commonplace with AegisWare : Apricorn’s proprietary firmware and have set. Unlike the opposite Aegis Secure Drives and Secure Keys, the 3NX and 3NXC gives a singular patented function: fastened disk / detachable media toggling.
Consistent with the Apricorn line of safe drives, all passwords and instructions are entered by means of the machine’s onboard keypad. A full 100 p.c of the authentication and encryption processes happen throughout the machine itself and by no means contain software program or share password or encryption information with its host pc. Additionally, all have army grade 256-bit AES XTS encryption and firmware is locked down and cannot be up to date or modified, defending in opposition to malware.
Aegis Secure Key 3NX security measures:
- 256-Bit AES XTS Military-Grade Hardware Encryption: Encrypts all information on-the-fly
- Software-Free: Ready to make use of proper out of the field; no software program, no drivers, no updates
- OS Agnostic: Compatible with PC, MAC, Linux, Android, Symbian or any mass storage compliant system with a powered USB port
- Forced Enrollment: No factory-preset default PINs
- Aegis Configurator Compatible: Create customized profiles and mass configure a number of Aegis units directly
- Onboard Keypad: All PIN entries are carried out on the machine’s keypad making it appropriate with methods with out keyboards and shares no essential safety parameters with its host pc
- Lock-Override Mode: Can be programmed to stay unlocked throughout reboot / USB re-enumeration
- Two Read-Only Modes: Preserve information in its unique, unaltered state whereas blocking malware
- Data Recovery PINs: present entry to the machine within the occasion of forgotten PINs
- Programmable Brute Force Protection: After a predetermined variety of consecutive incorrect PIN entry makes an attempt, the Aegis Secure Key will conclude that it’s below assault by Brute Force and destroy its encryption key and PINs, rendering all information undecipherable
- Removable Media / Fixed Disk Toggling Ability: U.S. Pat. No. 10,338,840
- Seven Storage Capacities: 2 GB, four GB, eight GB, 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB
- Rugged Design: Aluminium exterior with protecting sheath, hardened epoxy potting inside, and polymer coated wear-resistant buttons.
