Electron Hut reviews the Kanguru Defender Elite encrypted flash drive.
The Bottom Line: if you’re looking for a solid performer in the arena of encrypted flash drives, the Kanguru Defender Elite won’t let you down.
Thanks to Kyle at Electron Hut for the time and effort to evaluate the product! We would like to highlight that the first year of anti-virus protection is free of charge with every Defender Elite purchased.
Kanguru invites Government & Industry to visit us at FOSE 2010 at the Washington Convention Center, March 23-25. Kanguru is Booth #2930.
This year, Kanguru is exhibiting the FIPS 140-2 certified Kanguru Defender Elite secure flash drive. Designed specifically to meet US Government specs, this device uses 256AES Hardware Encryption and features built-in Anti-virus protection. Federal Government agencies are still scrubbing infected computers nearly a year and a half after the Conficker virus outbreak in late 2008. The risk from this type of USB-spread virus can be greatly reduced by using secure devices like Defender Elite.
Kanguru is proud to announce that the Kanguru Defender Elite encrypted USB flash drive has received FIPS 140-2 certification from the US and Canadian Governments. This hardware encrypted device meets Level 2 security requirements, which validates its use for protecting sensitive government information. Defender Elite also meets Level 3 requirements in several key security catagories. The FIPS 140-2 standard is recognized internationally and by a number of other industry regulations, including HIPAA (PDF) for Healthcare.
Check out our website for more product details, and read our previous post about remote management.
The Office of Inadequate Security has a list of newly reported data breaches provided by the Maryland Attorney General. Many of the incidents involved stolen laptops, external hard drives or flash drives that contained sensitive information and were not properly encrypted.
More information about the Maryland Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) can be found at the AG’s website.
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