IronKey Technology - Private Surfing

For those concerned about online security threats like man-in-the-middle attacks, there is a whole new way to surf the Web: using IronKey's Secure Sessions service and the Firefox browser already installed on your IronKey.

This allows you to safely connect to your favorite websites, even public computers, and tunnel through unprotected wireless networks and snooping ISPs.

Surfing the Web Safely

With IronKey's Secure Sessions Service, your Web communications travel through an encrypted tunnel on the Internet to our network routing servers and eventually out to your destination website. This approach works just like an instant VPN (virtual private network), but is portable, so you can use it on other computers without having to install and configure complicated software.

Since IronKey controls the server your traffic will exit from, you get the benefit of additional online protection. IronKey performs a check to ensure that your traffic goes to the actual destination site using known DNS databases. It will also check to make sure that it is not a known phishing site. These anti-pharming and anti-phishing methods give you the latest in online protection.

This gives you simple but effective protection against phishing attacks and spyware that tracks your keystrokes.

Surfing the Web Privately

Not only does IronKey's Secure Sessions service encrypt your online communications, but it provides a layer of anonymity to protect your identity and confidentiality. Websites will no longer be able to see your IP address or know where in the world you are coming from because it will appear as though you are coming from one of IronKey's Tor servers instead of from your computer. And you can easily change which country your Web traffic is coming from at any time.

To protect your privacy, IronKey has extended Tor technology originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory. IronKey's Secure Sessions Service sends your Web traffic through multiple network routing servers before decrypting it on an IronKey server and sending it to the destination site. This makes it virtually impossible to track who is going where or correlate your surfing to your computer.

Optimized for Speed

IronKey's Secure Sessions Service uses complex routing algorithms and high performance Tor servers to ensure an enjoyable Web experience. This is done without requiring identifiable information that could be tied back to an individual user or IronKey device. And, you can easily and quickly disable the service by clicking a button right in the browser, which is handy when security and privacy are not important but data transfer speeds are.