Businesses and governments can't afford to be unprepared for downtime or interrupted operations. Natural disasters, pandemics, and system outages can quickly disrupt and disable unprepared organisations. 

Organisations are using mobile computing, telecommuting, and pre-staged recovery kits to prepare for disaster recovery. High density portable storage allows large, essential data sets to be transferred and stored. High performance portable storage also allows virtual machines and bootable operating environments, sometimes called a"PC on a stick," to be deployed. In addition to critical data, this provides workers a complete work environment that's easily stored, portable, and runs anywhere whether out in the field or from employees homes.

With so much data stored and in use, it must also be secured. Planning for local or worldwide disaster recovery still requires compliance with data protection and breach notification rules.  In the US, UK, Germany, and other countries, strong encryption is recognised by industry and government regulators as the best way to protect mobile data, especially data stored on portable USB devices. Encrypting data and being able to report on its protection often provides 'safe harbor' from breach notification, fines, and other regulatory action. And especially in times of disaster recovery, IP theft and espionage are still real threats. Strong encryption keeps confidential data and proprietary business processes safe from compromise.

IronKey solutions for disaster recovery planning

IronKey Enterprise is an essential part of preparing an emergency recovery kit. Encrypted USB portable storage allows large data sets to be stored and transferred. High performance flash memory allows workers access to applications using virtual machines or bootable PC on a stick environments. Onboard two factor authentication allows a single device to replace multiple items and simplify recovery.  Administrators can assist users with password recovery and if needed can remotely disable devices and wipe data

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