In this day and age, most businesses have employees that transport sensitive data beyond the trusted internal network with USB Flash drives. Many of you know about the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) that is used to accredit cryptographic modules. The FIPS 140 Publication Series has been around for a decade now and if you have ever shopped for enterprise USB Flash drives you might have seen some advertised as FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certified for example. FIPS 140-2 defines four levels of security and if you'd like to know more about these you can read about them here.Many corporations are now requiring that their employees must carry a FIPS 140-2 Certified device with 256-bit AES Encryption to help keep corporate secrets and data safe and sound. The largest two players in that market are clearly IronKey and Kingston Technology.