Spyrus: Secure Portable Workplace USB Drive for Windows To Go

Spyrus, Inc. announced the Secure Portable Workplace (SPW) as an upgraded replacement for the discontinued Kingston/Ironkey W500 Workspace bootable USB drive for Windows To Go.

The SPW shares many of the same features of the company’s family of USB 3.0 SSD class live drives in support of Windows To Go including integration with the firm’s Enterprise Management System (SEMS) for remote management of the devices. The SPW features assurance, hardware-based, full-disk XTS-AES-256 bit encryption coupled with enhanced user authentication and integrity checking fully integrated into the boot up process.

The SPW is FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified by NIST with certificates 1302, 2390, and 2685; and share the company’s USB 3.0 drive family’s same MIL-810 tested packaging along with an unprecedented selection of capabilities and features in sizes from 32GB through 1TB. The SPW has been fielded in multi-thousand seat deployments across a range of PCs to include older Windows7 platforms through the latest Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book.

“The product discontinuance of the Kingston/Ironkey W500 series has left customers without a suitable solution for Windows To Go deployments for mobile applications, contractor and traveler scenarios, DR, and Continuity of Operation,” said Tom Dickens, COO, Spyrus. “The Secure Portable Workplace provides an extremely cost effective solution for enterprises from SMB through large scale multinational global corporations. The enhanced features of the SPW include the ability to configure optional data vault compartments for secure storage and an optional read only mode which helps protect against malware attacks on the OS and applications.“

The Secure Portable Workplace offering maintains across-the-board compatibility with the optional Enterprise Management System (SEMS). With SEMS device management, enterprise administrators can centrally register, block/unblock, revoke, set policies, audit, and ‘kill’ the SPW as well as other firm’s devices including all other members of the Windows To Go drive family, PocketVault 3-X and Rosetta TrustedFlash microSDHC devices.

The versions of SEM 4.5 feature Active Directory integration and support for globally distributed domains and privileges.

Company’s SEMSaaS allows enterprises to employ a ‘cloud-based SEMS’ without standing up their own servers.