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IRONKEY ENTERPRISE USER GUIDE
uSIng THE OnBOARD FIREFOx AnD SECuRE SESSIOnS SERVICE
(WInDOWS OnLy)
If enabled, a Firefox web browser is already onboard your IronKey, so none of your cookies,
history files, bookmarks, add-ons or online passwords is stored on the local computer. Now
you can carry your personalized web experience with you to other computers without worry.
# Step
Description
1 Launch the onboard Firefox web
browser for portable surfing
If enabled, clicking on the Mozilla Firefox icon in the
Applications list of the IronKey Control Panel will
launch the onboard Firefox. You cannot have a local
version of Firefox running at the same time; if you do,
you will be prompted to close it.
2 Toggle Secure Sessions for secure
and private surfing
If enabled, clicking the IronKey button on the bottom
right of the onboard Firefox will silently turn IronKey’s
Secure Sessions Service on/off. This will create an
encrypted tunnel directly from your IronKey, out
to a secured IronKey web server, where it is then
decrypted and sent out to the destination site.
This security gives you anti-phishing and anti-pharming
protection (for example, we do our own DNS
checking), as well as enhanced privacy protection (for
example your IP address will not be available to other
websites and ISPs). You can check this out by going to
a site such as
whatismyip.com
or
ipchicken.com
.
3 Using the Secure Sessions Tools:
Network Map, Bandwidth Meter,
and Changing Identities
At any time while using Secure Sessions, you can
launch additional tools from the IronKey System Tray
Menu that show you more information regarding your
web traffic and current session.
The Network Map will show all of your available
“circuits” and where in the world your traffic will be
coming from.
The Bandwidth Meter will show you your current
bandwidth metrics.
You can easily change your apparent online “identity”,
which creates a new random circuit and changes the
path of your encrypted web traffic. As you will be
coming from a different IP address, it will likely appear
to websites that you are a different person.