Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives, has launched the first 2TB encrypted flash key.

Designed for organisations that need large amounts of encrypted storage with a minimal footprint, the new 2TB Aegis Secure Key 3 is the industry’s first hardware-encrypted flash key of this size.

The Aegis Secure Key 3 range has eight capacity options ranging from 16GB to 2TB, priced from $129 to €999.

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 enrolment, programmable PIN lengths, unattended auto lock and lock override.

At 256GB, this original version was already double the storage capacity of any encrypted flash key on the market.

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Fifteen months later, that maximum size doubled to 480GB, and again doubled to 1TB in November 2018.

Seven years after its initial launch, the company says that Aegis Secure Key 3 has been adopted in myriad government, military, and corporate environments.

Apricorn US Managing director Kurt Marley commented: “We developed forced enrolment to force users to create their own PIN before they could use the device at all.

“We have 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.”

AegisWare, the firmware and feature set, was developed to address security threats and business needs for highly regulated sectors such as government, defence, finance, manufacturing and healthcare.