Aegis Secure Key 3z – USB 3.1 (3.0) Flash Drive
Introduction
Data privacy is of paramount importance in this day and age due to the sheer number of sophisticated exploits out in the market. We discussed about the inherent risks of using portable flash drives when we reviewed the iStorage Datashur Pro a couple of months back. Today we put through the paces of another similar product called the Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3z.
While the threat USB flash drives pose is very real, organizations and employees are still keen to use them due to the efficiency they bring into the work place. How many of us eagerly accept free flash drives that are offered at conferences. We then simply plug them into a corporate work PC without a second thought, not knowing you’re potentially exposing your company’s corporate network to hackers.
Thanks to companies like Apricorn, we can now make the responsible choice of discarding standard flash drives and opting for more secure, hardware encrypted drives in our corporate environment.
Headquartered in Poway, California, Apricorn provides hardware-based 256-bit encrypted external storage products to companies and organizations that require high-level protection for their data. Since their inception in 1983, Apricorn have made dozens of award-winning innovations and the Aegis Secure Key 3z is one of their newest products we will take a look at today.
Aegis Secure Key 3z
Pros
- Military Grade Data Encryption
- Brute Force Protection
- Immune to keyloggers
- Feature Rich
- Reasonable performance
Cons
- Price
- Excess heat
