December 11, 2024,TOKYO, Japan : Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced that the cryptographic module used in KIOXIA CM7 Series PCIe® 5.0 NVMe™ Enterprise SSDs has been validated to meet Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3, Level 2 for cryptographic modules.

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KIOXIA CM7 Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe Enterprise SSD (Photo: Business Wire)
KIOXIA CM7 Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe Enterprise SSD (Photo: Business Wire)

The FIPS 140-3 standard specifies a set of security requirements of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), used as a security metric for federal agencies to procure validated IT equipment. Companies and federal agencies may prefer or may now be required to deploy newer, more stringent government standards – which SSDs validated to FIPS 140-3 requirements would meet. Compared to the previous FIPS 140-2 requirements, 140-3 provides higher standards for SSDs, including a stronger authentication method and updated implementation guidance.

Kioxia brought PCIe 5.0 technology to server and storage applications with the KIOXIA CM7 Series NVMe SSD. Targeted at enterprise applications and use cases – including artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, online transaction processing database, and data warehousing – KIOXIA CM7 Series drives bring enterprise performance, reliability and security to data center servers and storage.

KIOXIA CM7 Series SSD Key Features include:

PCIe 5.0 compliant NVMe SSDs in 2.5-inch(1) and E3.S SSD form factors
Dual and single-port support
Read-intensive and mixed-use endurances
Capacities from 1.6 terabytes (TB) to 30.72 TB (15.36 TB in E3.S form factor)
Security options include: sanitize instant erase (SIE) (2), TCG Opal self-encrypting drive (SED) (3) and SED utilizing FIPS 140-3 Level 2 module