With the emergence of cyber security concerns, companies are rising to meet this challenge by providing innovative solutions that fulfill security demands for embedded applications in industrial and defense markets. Microsemi Corporation has introduced an ANSI/VITA 42.3-2014 compliant PCI Express interface XMC form factor SATA solid-state drive (SSD) for industrial and defense applications where ultimate security for data at rest is required. As part of Microsemi’s TRRUST-Stor self-encrypting drive technology offerings, the XMC offers powerful key management methods. In the most advanced method, no encryption key is stored in the SSD, leaving data forensically unrecoverable.
The MXMCM256/512 TRRUST Stor 256 GB and 512 GB XMC SSDs plug directly into the host card, eliminating the need for an external enclosure. The SSDs feature hardware-based AES256 encryption and have a layered security protocol allowing a hardware or software command to erase the encryption key in less than 30 milliseconds, as well as erase full flash storage media in less than 10 seconds with no trace of recoverable data.
