MXI Security: Secure USB drives

available for governments and businesses world-wide to safely and securely transport mission-critical information.”

MXI currently has 140 employees. Prospective employees are subjected to security and background checks. In an interview with Homeland Security NewsWire, Jack Sebbag, who was appointed in April 2010 to the position of vice president, North American sales, said business was going well for the company: “The corporate and government marketplace, recognize the need to secure all moveable data. In fact, laws like HIPAA, Sarabanes Oxley etc.. along with Federal Government requirepements for FIPS 140-2 validation, have all contributed to the increased need of our Secure USB Technology portfolio.” Sebbag brings over 22 years of high-technology management and sales experience to the position.

The company builds several management and security features into their secure USB drives. , “We have provided the necessary security and management features that allow the government agencies and our corporate customers to be able to push out security policies to the device so that when a user plugs the device in their system, they are automatically provisioned, managed and audited”, Sebbag says. This can be done because each USB drive can be monitored by the company’s IT department

Sebbag described a scenario on how the U.S. Army and Navy might  utilize this state of the art technology now that they have purchased the company’s USB drives. “Envision our military personnel using the Internet in a desert operation in Afghanistan. Front-line soldier are relaying information from a USB drive in a laptop they carry back to home base. The enemy is trying to hack the signal and steal that information. Our USB drives coupled with our partner, Skycatcher application, are capable of ‘spoofing,’ or throwing off the intercepting signal by masking a system’s IP and making it look as though it were coming from somewhere in Wisconsin.”

The higher-end USB drives in MXI’s product-line are equipped with 256 bit encryption, which, according to Sebbag, is “…very hard to crack.” MXI added a 64 GB USB drive to their stealth family of secure portable devices in August of this year that are ideally suited for government customers that require high-capacity devices. The company’s online store offers options to integrate anti-virus and anti-malware capabilities and distinguishes between the government and non-government customers, basing prices on storage capabilities and various other features: encrypted secure storage, password authentication, “hardware-enforced complexity,” and the FIPS 140 validation. MXI Security is an OEM for Microsoft, McAfee, IdenTrust, Unisys, Skycatcher and more.