Provided the PIN has been recognized, the green LED will flash for the next 30 seconds, giving you time to connect the drive to a USB port. Enter either an Admin or User PIN, and then press the unlock button again.

In order to use it, you just need to wake up the drive by pressing the unlock button. Additional security advantages of Apricorn's USB 3.This is a thumbdrive with a built in alphanumeric keypad. Like all Apricorn products, the Aegis Secure Key 3 still comes standard with AegisWare ™, Apricorn's proprietary firmware and feature set which was developed to address constantly-evolving security threats and business needs for highly regulated sectors such as government, defense, finance, manufacturing and healthcare. The Aegis Secure Key 3 has become Apricorn's U2 spy plane.' When it comes to tech – especially hardware – it's rare for a product to remain at the top of its field for more than five years, much less seven.

'We've consistently increased storage capacities for the Secure Key 3, which employs a mini SSD rather than flash memory, making the line bigger and faster than other hardware-encrypted flash keys. Most of those feature improvements have become standard in the market, including Forced Enrollment ™, which we developed to force users to create their own PIN before they could use the device at all,' said Kurt Markley, U.S. 'The Aegis Secure Key 3 line was designed to address security issues we identified in 2015 and that still plague organizations today. Seven years after its initial launch, the Aegis Secure Key 3 has been adopted in myriad government, military, and corporate environments and remains Apricorn's fastest, most rugged flash key in the line. Fifteen months later, that maximum size doubled to 480GB, and again doubled to 1TB in November of 2018. At 256GB, this original version was already double the storage capacity of any encrypted flash key on the market.

The Aegis Secure Key 3, originally introduced in 2015, was the first Apricorn device to feature AegisWare ™, Apricorn's patent-protected firmware that first introduced Forced Enrollment, Programmable PIN lengths, Unattended Auto Lock and Lock Override.

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