Flexxon, a Singapore-based firm that creates NAND flash storage options, principally for the enterprise market, has come out with its X-PHY AI Embedded Cyber Safe SSD, which the corporate payments because the “final line of cyber protection.”
This inner SSD can shield in opposition to each recognized threats and zero-day assaults, because of AI-enabled safety on the firmware stage that allows real-time information safety, instantly figuring out threats and reducing off their entry to your information.
On the {hardware} facet, the drive is embedded with sensors to stop any bodily assault together with chip high layer scraping. As well as, Flexxon has teamed with Lenovo on three strains of laptops. Primarily based on the ThinkPad and bearing X-PHY Cyber Safe SSDs and different safety features, these PCs are on account of come to market in early 2022.
Fashionable cyber threats can simply bypass current software program defenses, flowing from the cloud or community to particular person computer systems, focusing on the working system and breaching the SSD’s firmware to entry your information. Flexxon says the X-PHY AI Embedded Cyber Safe SSD can instantly determine these threats and shut off entry to your information fully.
Throughout a teleconference with Flexxon’s Singapore workplace, I witnessed an indication of the drive figuring out and stopping a ransomware assault. It was spectacular, though granted, it was a recognized ransomware program. The safety technique, which requires no human intervention, evaluates information entry patterns with its AI co-processor. In keeping with Flexxon, the drive supplies 100% zero-day safety protection, with no false positives.
The three laptop computer strains—X-PHY Ace, X-PHY CyberPad, and X-PHY Zepto—are primarily hyper-secure ThinkPads, every incorporating an X-PHY Cyber Safe SSD.
- The X-Phy Ace sequence consists of each the 14-inch A14 ($2,050 with 512GB SSD, $2,300 with 1TB SSD) and 15-inch A15 ($3,000 with 1TB SSD).
- The 14-inch CyberPad C14 sells for $1,980 with a 512GB SSD and $2,230 with a 1TB drive.
- The X-PHY Zepto Z14 goes for $2,900 with 512GB and $3,150 with a 1TB drive.
Flexxon sells the X-PHY AI Embedded Cyber Safe SSD within the M.2 2280 kind issue for $360 for the 512GB model and $570 for the 1TB stick, by way of its X-PHY retailer. They’re additionally accessible within the U.2 format, primarily utilized in enterprise techniques, for $10 extra.
COVID-related supply-chain points and the worldwide element scarcity have impacted the launch of the laptops; new pre-orders are anticipated to be shipped round April. The primary batch of SSDs has hit the market, and a second batch is due out within the first quarter, most likely in February.