Apricorn 5TB Aegis Fortress L3 FIPS Validated USB Encrypted Portable Drive

The Aegis Fortress L3 is a NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated device designed to provide exceptional security for your data. Milled from a solid block of aircraft-grade 6061 aluminum alloy, the enclosure features snap-off uni-directional security fasteners and a membrane-style keypad.

The entire device, including the hard drive, electronics, external fasteners, and even the enclosure itself, is within the elevated FIPS Validation boundary, ensuring complete protection. All data is encrypted on-the-fly using AES-XTS 256-bit hardware encryption, safeguarding your information even if the hard drive is extracted from its enclosure.

The Aegis Fortress L3 is ready to use right out of the box, with no software, drivers, or updates required. It is completely cross-platform compatible, excelling on any PC, Mac, Linux, or mass storage compliant system with a powered USB port.

Apricorn's secure drives feature forced enrollment, a security feature that eliminates the vulnerability of factory-preset default pins prevalent in other manufacturers' encrypted drives. With forced enrollment, the Admin must first establish a pin before the device can be used. All pin entries are performed on the device's keypad, making it compatible with systems without keyboards and sharing no security parameters with its host computer.

The Aegis Fortress L3 offers two Read-Only modes, which are perfect for accessing data on the drive in a public setting to protect against USB viruses and ideal for applications that require data to be preserved in its original, unaltered state.

To defend against brute-force attacks, the Aegis Fortress L3 is programmed to perform a crypto-erase, deleting the encryption key and rendering all of the drive's data useless, after a predetermined number of consecutive incorrect pin entries.

For enhanced configurability, users can create custom profiles and mass configure multiple Aegis devices at once with Apricorn's Aegis Configurator (sold separately).

The Aegis Fortress L3 is Apricorn's fastest and most rugged 256-bit AES XTS encrypted USB external drive, providing unparalleled data security and flexibility.

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