FAQ Categories: Archival and Backup Platform

Yes, Vaultastic supports the archiving of shared files and folders from collaborative storage apps like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. This includes files shared within the organization as well as externally with partners, clients, or vendors. Vaultastic captures these shared files and retains their metadata, including ownership, thus ensuring that the context of the collaboration is preserved.

By archiving shared files, Vaultastic helps organizations maintain a comprehensive record of their collaborative efforts. This is particularly useful for compliance audits, legal inquiries, and internal investigations. The archived shared files are indexed and stored securely, making them easily searchable and retrievable while safeguarding sensitive information.

If you discontinue your subscription to a collaborative storage/drive app like Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, the data archived in Vaultastic remains unaffected and fully accessible. Vaultastic operates independently of your storage app, ensuring that your critical files and documents are preserved securely in its archive.

You can continue to access, search, and retrieve your archived data via Vaultastic’s self-service portal. This independence from the source application protects against vendor lock-in, ensuring business continuity even if you change storage providers. 

Vaultastic also supports seamless data export in portable formats, allowing you to migrate or manage your data as needed. By serving as a separate and secure repository, Vaultastic ensures your data’s safety and availability, irrespective of changes in your primary storage solution.

The Active Store is a high-performance storage tier in Vaultastic, designed to store frequently accessed information, such as recent emails with their attachments. It acts as a dynamic repository for your most critical and actively used email information. Email data stored in the Active Store is indexed and fully searchable, enabling rapid access to meet the demands of business operations, legal inquiries, and compliance requirements.

The Active Store uses advanced indexing and storage technologies to ensure that data retrieval is fast and efficient. It integrates seamlessly with Vaultastic’s other storage tiers, such as the Open and Deep Store, providing a tiered storage to optimize costs and deliver a holistic data management solution. The Active Store ensures that your data is always available for real-time e-discovery, reporting, and operational continuity, making it an essential component for modern organizations.

The Active Store is best suited for storing frequently used and recent email data, which includes:

• Emails and Attachments: Recent email correspondence and their associated files.
• Case Management Data: Email records flagged for legal or compliance investigations.

This tier is designed to prioritize fast access, making it ideal for storing data critical to business continuity, supervision and compliance-related activities. Email data in the Active Store is indexed for quick retrieval, ensuring seamless support for dynamic operational needs.

Vaultastic ensures the highest level of security with a comprehensive security checklist that goes beyond basic cloud security configurations. The solution continuously monitors for potential threats and provides closed-loop feedback to mitigate risks effectively. 

Built on the industry-leading AWS cloud infrastructure, Vaultastic builds on the cloud’s shared security model. AWS offers security OF the cloud, while Vaultastic ensures security IN the cloud. 

Vaultastic enhances protection at every component level, including network, data, and applications. Key security features include role-based access management (IAM), encryption at rest and in transit, DDOS protection, and multi-factor authentication.

In addition, Vaultastic is designed to meet stringent cybersecurity guidelines from industry regulators such as RBI, SEBI, and IRDAI. The platform undergoes regular vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and an annual Foundational Technical Review (FTR) by AWS to ensure its security infrastructure remains robust and compliant with industry standards.

Vaultastic employs a robust, multi-layered security framework based on the cloud’s shared security model to safeguard your data. 

It adheres to cybersecurity guidelines from several industry regulatory bodies, ensuring compliance and protection. Vaultastic leverages a public cloud platform that guarantees 11 9’s of data durability, with an in-built disaster recovery (DR) site, alleviating concerns about Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). 

Additionally, strong end-to-end encryption ensures that your data remains visible only to you, further enhancing security and privacy.

Yes, Vaultastic is thoroughly tested, audited, and certified by independent bodies. As a cloud-native solution running entirely on the AWS public cloud, Vaultastic leverages AWS’s shared security model. 

Mithi’s solutions undergo an annual audit by AWS as part of their Foundational Technical Review (FTR) program, ensuring adherence to strict security, performance and reliability standards. 

Additionally, many of Vaultastic’s large, regulated customers conduct independent Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing (VAPT) periodically to verify the security of the platform across all layers. We are proud to note that in over a decade of deploying our solutions across hundreds of servers, no intrusions have been reported.

Yes, Vaultastic supports role-based access as part of its robust security framework. This ensures that only authorized personnel can access specific data or perform certain actions based on their roles. 

Besides role-based access, Vaultastic’s security management practices include continuous monitoring, automated threat detection, frequent audits, and ongoing system upgrades. Additionally, regular training on security best practices and continuous improvements help to build strong cyber resilience, safeguarding your data against evolving threats.

Vaultastic enforces a zero-trust policy, where all user access is disabled by default. As the administrator, you have full control to define roles and assign role-based access to users according to your organization’s policy. 

Through the Vaultastic admin panel and dashboard, you can easily monitor and manage access rights, ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to your archived data, enhancing both security and compliance.

Vaultastic operates on the AWS cloud, following a shared security model where AWS ensures the security OF the cloud infrastructure, and Vaultastic provides security IN the cloud. 

 Vaultastic employs multi-layered security measures, including encryption, access control, and auditing, to protect your data. In the unlikely event of a security breach, the robust encryption in place would make it extremely difficult for attackers to access or decipher your data, ensuring a high level of protection even in compromised situations.