Help And Troubleshooting - Kingston Technology IronKey Vault Privacy 50 Installation Manual

Help and Troubleshooting

Device Lockout
The VP50 includes a security feature that prevents unauthorized access to the data partition once a maximum
number of consecutive failed login attempts (MaxNoA for short) has been made. The default "out-of-box"
configuration has a pre-configured value of 10 (no. of attempts.) for each Login method (Admin/User/One-Time
Recovery Password).
The 'lock-out' counter tracks each failed login and gets reset
1. A successful login prior to reaching MaxNoA.
2. Reaching MaxNoA and performing either a device lockout or device format depending on how the drive is
configured.
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If an incorrect password is entered, an error
message will appear in red just above the
Password Entry field, indicating a login
failure. (Figure 9.1)
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When a 7 failed attempt is made, you will
see an additional error message indicating
you have 3 attempts left before reaching
MaxNoA (which is set to 10 by default).
(Figure 9.2)
one of two ways:
Figure 9.1 - Incorrect Password message
Figure 9.2 - 7 th incorrect Password attempt
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