What is a secure data vault?
A secure data vault is storage dedicated to high-value information, with deliberately narrow access, strong protection applied to the data itself, and verifiable retrieval.
A secure data vault for your crown jewels.
A vault is not a bigger drive. It is a different promise: fewer ways in, nothing readable at rest, and a verified original whenever you need it back.
How is a vault different from a drive?
A drive is optimised for sharing and speed of collaboration. A vault is optimised for containment. It assumes an attacker will eventually get inside something, and makes sure that is not enough.
What belongs in one?
Anything whose loss, theft or exposure would materially harm the organisation or the person who owns it.
Every Citadel subscription protects more than storage.
Citadel is priced for the people who use it and the work they do. The service connects identity, networking, transport, protected data, recovery and business continuity in one architecture.
Identity
Quantum-Secure® authentication designed to reduce dependence on traditional key-based access.
Network
Quantum-Secure® private networking extends protection beyond the storage environment.
Transport
ParticleMesh™ protects data as it moves between people, applications, clouds and infrastructure.
Data
Secured2 protection is applied to the data itself, beyond conventional encryption at rest.
Resilience
Multi-location redundancy, recovery and business continuity reduce dependence on any single system.
Risk
Eligible deployments can include contractual cyber-risk indemnification backed by a Lloyd's of London insurance policy.*
* Insurance, indemnification, coverage limits, exclusions, eligibility and availability are subject to the applicable policy and contractual terms.
Containment beats defence.
Almost every serious breach begins with legitimate access: a credential, a session, an insider, a contractor. Walls do not help when the intruder walks in through the door.
A vault changes the outcome of that moment. If the data at rest is not whole, and no single location holds anything meaningful, then access alone does not produce a readable file.
One vault, your storage.
Citadel keeps your file identity constant while the underlying storage is yours to choose. Fragments can sit across the environments you approve, and usage can scale without moving your vault.
Every retrieval is verified byte for byte, so you always know what came back is exactly what went in.
Questions people ask
- Do I need a data vault if I already have cloud storage?
- Most organisations do. Everyday storage is right for everyday work. A vault exists for the small set of files where an ordinary outcome is unacceptable.
- Can I move data out later?
- Yes. Files are retrieved as the original, complete and verified, at any time.
- Who can see what is inside?
- Only the authenticated account holder. There is no sharing surface, and activity history is private.
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