The Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 50 series includes high-quality USB-A and USB-C drives that provide enterprise-level security with FIPS 197-certified AES-256-bit hardware encryption in XTS mode, including protections against BadUSB with digitally signed firmware and against brute-force password attacks. The VP50 has undergone a penetration test for enterprise-level security. As these are encrypted storage devices under the physical control of the user, the VP50 series offers significantly better data privacy than the internet or cloud services.

The Vault Privacy 50 supports a multi-password option (Admin, User, and one-time Recovery) with complex or passphrase modes. This allows for better recovery of access to data if one of the passwords is forgotten. In the conventional complex mode, passwords can range from 6 to 16 characters using 3 out of 4 character sets.