- SSD with high security from Flexxon offers AI protection against manipulation
- X-Phy Guard Solution has slower speeds than consumer drives but focuses on security
- It seems to be a niche product as roll -out to a wider market that is still not confirmed
Singapore-based Security Company Flexxon has released what it calls the first solid-state drive with embedded artificial intelligence security.
The product is labeled as the X-Phy Guard solution and combines an SSD with AI-driven monitoring and a subscription service that costs from $ 249 per day. Year.
The drive is beaten as a last line of defense with features aimed at protecting data, even if other security layers fail.
Lite, important and premium editions
The device can monitor for ransomware, cloning, ambient interference and temperature changes that may indicate manipulation.
If an unusual activity is detected, the device can lock itself and warn the user.
Access can then be restored through approval, or in extreme cases, the data can be wiped out to prevent unauthorized use.
Flexxon throws its SSD with high security users, including state agencies and industrial operators.
X-Phy Drive is based on PCIE NVME M.2 hardware with 3D NAND-FLASH, paired with a controller running firmware that integrates the company’s AI One Core Quantum Engine.
The company has not revealed exactly how its engine works, so we are not sure if the system works independently of a host or depends on a combination of hardware and software processes.
X-phy comes in lite, important and premium editions. Lite, price for $ 249 a year, provides a smaller function kit with monitoring of ransomware and power lock.
Essential is based on it with cloning rejection and surrounding interference warnings for $ 359 a year.
Premium offers the full package, adding temperature monitoring, manipulation alerts and the ability to eject data automatically, price for $ 489 a year.
X-phy comes with 1 TB storage, but with sequential reading speeds of up to 1,700 MB/s and writing speeds up to 1,200 MB/s, it is well under consumer NVME SSDs reaching over 3,000 MB/s.
Camellia Chan, founder and CEO of Flexxon, said: “With innovations like X-phy, we will be better equipped to take advantage of technology while protecting ourselves from rising cyber threats.”
Flexxon says it intends to extend accessibility beyond corporate customers, but there is no word about when it will happen.
Currently, X-phy remains a niche product designed to add an additional hardware-based security layer at a price.
