Prevent Identity Theft
There's only one you, so it pays to protect the data that identifies you in today's digital world. However, avoiding identity theft is no longer as simple as shredding credit card offers or ignoring clumsy emails scams from Nigerian princes who promise untold riches in exchange for your bank information.

The explosion in online banking and e-commerce, as well as the popularity of personal finance software has spawned a new species of global identity thieves. And these cybercriminals steal confidential information from computer users with unprecedented sophistication.

Ways Cybercriminals Can Steal Your Identity:

• Hacking into your computer by using everything from simple password guessing software to global networks of remotely hijacked computers (Botnets) that can hammer away at password protection with millions of tries
  Infiltrating your computer with viruses and worms that steal information and send it back to the hacker over the Internet.
• Installing software (keyloggers) on your computer that can log your keystrokes when you type your username and password to a website.
• Redirecting your Web browser to fake phishing websites that look convincingly like legitimate sites, where hackers capture your confidential information

The High Cost of Losing Your Identity
The Federal Trade Commission estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year. And identity theft is a serious matter. It may cause you to be denied loans for education, housing or cars because of negative information on your credit reports, or even cause you to lose out on job opportunities. Damage to your credit can also mean identity theft victims pay more for everything from home loans to car insurance. In rare cases, they may even be arrested for crimes they did not commit.

While some victims resolve identity theft quickly, others spend hundreds of dollars and days or months trying to repair the damage to their credit records and reputation.

How IronKey Protects You from Identity Theft - Online and Offline
A good first line of defence against identity theft is to use your secure IronKey drive to store all your personal and financial information. That way, if your device is lost or stolen, your data is protected with the military-grade IronKey encryption. By using the IronKey backup software, you will also have a securely protected copy of all your critical information that you can save onto your PC.

In addition to strong encryption, IronKey Personal provides:

• An Identity Manager application that securely stores your usernames and passwords and automatically populates the fields when you visit a website. This not only protects you from keyloggers, but also makes it easy to use stronger passwords because you don't need to remember long, complicated strings of characters.
• Strong anti-malware defences to prevent crimeware, keyloggers, Trojan Horses and other malware from infecting your drive and potentially stealing your private information.
• VeriSign VIP One-Time Password verification to protect your financial data by providing a highly secure way to authenticate with online financial services such as your eBay and PayPal account.
• The IronKey Secure Sessions service to prevent people from spying on your Internet traffic, while also providing secure DNS services to help assure that you are not visiting a spoofed website used to perpetrate a phishing or pharming scam.