Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Personal IronKey
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P A GE 1 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE User Guide Ir onK e y P ersonal Secur e Flash Driv e.
P A GE 1 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Thank y ou for y our inter est in Ir onK e y . Ir onK ey is committed to cr eating and dev eloping the best security technologies and making them simple-to-use , affor dable , and a vailable to ev er y- one .
P A GE 2 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE CONTENTS What is it? Meet the Ir onK ey Cor e Featur es Device Diagrams T echnical & Security Notes Ir onK ey Device Security Ir onK ey Ser vices Secur ity Ho w Does i.
P A GE 3 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE What is it? Meet the Ir onK e y The Ir onK ey P ersonal Secure Flash Driv e, designed to be the w orld’ s most secur e USB ash drive, protects y our data, passw ords, and Internet privacy with some of toda y’ s most advanced security technologies.
P A GE 4 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE P ortable Cr oss-Platform Data Access The Ir onK ey Unlock er allows y ou to access your encrypted les on Win - dows 2000, XP , Vista, Mac OS X and n umerous distributions of Lin ux.
P A GE 5 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE De vice Diagrams The Ir onK ey has been designed fr om the ground up with security in mind. A combination of advanced security technologies ar e used to ensure maximum pr otection of y our data.
P A GE 6 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE T echnical & Security Notes W e are endea v oring to be very open about the security architectur e and technology that we use in designing and building the Ir onK ey devices and online ser vices. There is no hocus-pocus or handwa ving her e .
P A GE 7 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE P assw ord Mana ger Pr otection The Ir onK ey Passw ord Manager and m y .ironk ey .com work together , giving you the ability to back up y our online passw ords to y our Online Security V ault at my .ir onk ey .com . First, you m ust unlock your Ir onK ey de vice, which requir es tw o-factor authentication.
P A GE 8 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Secure Sessions: Making T or Faster and Mor e Secure Ir onK ey maintains a secur e , private T or network with its own, high-perf or - mance ser v ers (separate from the public T or network).
P A GE 9 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Ho w does it work? Pr oduct W alkthr ough Y our Ir onK ey P ersonal Secure Flash Driv e consists of the following components: » Ir onK ey Unlock er (Windows, Mac and Linu.
P A GE 10 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 3 Create a device passw ord and a nickname for y our Ir onK ey . Since you can ha ve multiple Ir onK eys associated with one Ir onK ey account, the nickname helps you distin- guish between diff erent Ir onK ey de vices. Y our passw ord is case-sensitiv e and must be at least 4 characters in length.
P A GE 11 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE IRONKEY UNLOCKER ON WINDO WS The Ir onK ey Unlock er allows y ou to securel y access your les on m ultiple operating systems. It pr ompts you f or your pass wor d, securely validates it, and then mounts y our secur e volume where all of y our les ar e stored on the Ir onK ey .
P A GE 12 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE INITIALIZING Y OUR IRONKEY ON A MA C If you pr efer to use a Mac, you can choose to initialize y our Ir onK ey on a Mac OS X computer : Step Description 1 Plug the Ir onK ey into y our computer’ s USB port. Y our Ir onK ey will run on Mac OS X (10.
P A GE 13 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE IRONKEY UNLOCKER ON A MA C The Ir onK ey Unlock er for Mac will allow y ou to access y our les and change your de vice pass - wor d on a Mac. Y ou can use the other IronK e y applications and ser vices on a Windows com- puter .
P A GE 14 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 3 Create a de vice passw ord and a nickname for y our Ir onK ey . Since you can ha ve multiple Ir onK eys, the nickname helps you distinguish betw een differ ent Ir onK ey de- vices. Y our passw ord is case-sensitiv e and must be at least 4 characters long .
P A GE 15 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Note that simply unmounting the de vice will not automatically lock the secur e volume. T o lock the device y ou will ha v e to either unmount and ph ysically r emov e (unplug) it, or else run: ironkey --lock Please note the follo wing impor tant details for using y our IronK e y on Linux: 1.
P A GE 16 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE IRONKEY CONTROL P ANEL Step Description 1 Creating, editing, deleting secur e les When you click on “Secure Files” in the Ir onK ey Contr ol Panel, Windo ws Explorer will open dir ectly to your secur e v olume .
P A GE 17 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 3 Conguring device settings The Settings menu allows y ou to congur e pref erences to your liking, such as: » Enabling/Disabling the Passw ord Manager » Enabling/.
P A GE 18 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 7 Adding, r enaming, and remo ving applications to the Applications List T o manage the items in the Application List of the Ir onK ey Contr ol Panel, simply right-click anywher e in Application List. A menu will appear allo wing you to: 1.
P A GE 19 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Step Description 1 Click the Ir onK ey Vir tual K ey- board icon. The Ir onK ey Vir tual K eyboar d will appear . Alternativ ely , y ou can press CTRL + AL T + V 2 Click on the k eys to type out your pass wor d. Click on ‘Enter’ when you ar e nished.
P A GE 20 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 2 T oggle Secure Sessions for secur e and private surng Clicking the Ir onK ey button on the bottom right of the onboard Fir efo x will silently turn Ir onK ey’ s Secure Sessions Ser vice on/off.
P A GE 21 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE IRONKEY P ASSW ORD MANA GER The Ir onK ey Passw ord Manager connects to t.
P A GE 22 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 3 Editing/deleting logins and P or - table Bookmarks Y ou can manage your Pass wor d Manager accounts fr om within the IronK e y Control Panel. Each w ebsite will ha v e a set-able name , a URL, a username (logins only), and a passw or d (logins only).
P A GE 23 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE SECURE BA CKUP SOFTW ARE If your Ir onK e y is lost or stolen, you ha v e peace of mind knowing that your condential information cannot be seen by an yone but y ou.
P A GE 24 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE IMPOR TING A DIGIT AL CER TIFICA TE INT O THE IRONKEY The Ir onK ey Cr yptochip includes a limited amount of extr emely secure har dwar e storage space , which can be used for storing the private k e y associated with a digital cer ticate.
P A GE 25 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 4 Note that Ir onK ey’ s certicate is a vailable her e . Now y ou can add y our own. Click the ‘ Impor t ’ button. 5 Br owse to the PKCS#12-for - mat certicate le and open it. Y ou will be pr ompted for the location of the PKCS#12- format certicate le (le extension will be .
P A GE 26 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING MY .IRONKEY .COM Y our Ir onK ey supports advanced cr yptographic authentication using strong PKI k ey pairs gener - ated in the Ir onK ey Cr yptochip . When you log into my .
P A GE 27 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 4 Monitoring account activities The Account Dashboard sho ws you the r ecent activities on your account, such as logins, failed passw ord attempts, and when y our device pass- wor d has been r ecover ed.
P A GE 28 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING Y OUR IRONKEY IN READ-ONL Y MODE Y ou can unlock your Ir onK ey in a r ead-only state such that les on y our Ir onK ey cannot be ed - ited.
P A GE 29 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Pr oduct Specications CAP A CITY* 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB SPEED * Up to 30 MB per second r ead speed Up to 20 MB per second write speed DIMENSIONS 75mm X 19mm X 9mm WEIGHT 0.
P A GE 30 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE What’ s next? In many wa ys, that’ s up to y ou. W e are f ocused on building not only the world’ s most secure ash driv e, but also enabling technologies that are simple and enjo yable to use .
P A GE 31 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Contact Information Pr oduct F eedback F eatur e Requests feedback@ironk ey .com featur erequest@ir onk ey .com Ir onK ey Online IronK ey Support https://my .ir onk ey.com https://suppor t.ironk ey .com https://learn.ironk ey .
An important point after buying a device IronKey Personal (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought IronKey Personal yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data IronKey Personal - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, IronKey Personal you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get IronKey Personal will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of IronKey Personal, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime IronKey Personal.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with IronKey Personal. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device IronKey Personal along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
