FAQ Categories: Reliability and Assurance

Yes, Vaultastic fully supports data residency requirements, enabling organizations to store their data within the geographic boundaries of specific countries. This feature is particularly crucial for compliance with laws mandating data localization, such as India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) and similar regulations in other jurisdictions.

By leveraging regional AWS data centers, Vaultastic allows customers to choose where their data is stored, ensuring compliance with local data protection laws. This not only helps meet legal obligations but also enhances trust and reliability by assuring stakeholders that sensitive information is handled in accordance with jurisdictional mandates.

Vaultastic is purpose-built to manage and preserve information for regulatory retention periods mandated by various laws and industry standards. The platform offers configurable retention policies that automatically archive emails, files, chats, and other communication/SaaS data for predefined durations, ensuring no records are inadvertently deleted before their retention period expires.

All data is stored in a tamper-proof format with immutable storage capabilities, guaranteeing its integrity throughout the retention period. Whether you need to retain data for a few years or decades, Vaultastic provides scalable, secure storage options across its Active, Open, and Deep Store tiers to meet long-term archival requirements cost-effectively. This ensures compliance with regulatory timelines while optimizing storage efficiency.

Vaultastic’s legal hold feature allows organizations to preserve specific vaults or datasets that may be relevant to investigations or litigation, exempting them from automated deletion or lifcycle data rotation policies. Once a legal hold is placed on a user’s vault or selected data, it is locked to prevent accidental or intentional deletion by the super admin, ensuring the integrity of the information throughout the investigation or legal proceedings.

The platform’s advanced e-discovery tools enable teams to search, retrieve, and review legal hold data quickly. With detailed audit trails and role-based access control, Vaultastic ensures that only authorized personnel can access the held data, maintaining confidentiality and compliance. By providing robust legal hold functionality, Vaultastic helps organizations confidently navigate regulatory, legal, and operational challenges.

Yes, Vaultastic offers advanced e-discovery tools designed to streamline the process of responding to regulatory queries and audits. The e-discovery panel enables users to perform global searches across archived data, using flexible filters like keywords, dates, file types, and more to locate specific information quickly.

Vaultastic supports granular retrieval, allowing auditors or compliance teams to extract specific emails, files, or datasets in portable formats such as PST or EML or the original file format. The integrated case management tool enhances collaboration by enabling secure, real-time sharing of discovery results with internal and external stakeholders. 

These tools are built to ensure regulatory readiness, making audits and legal investigations efficient, precise, and compliant with industry standards.

Vaultastic empowers organizations to comply with regulations like GDPR’s Right to Erasure by offering robust capabilities for selective data deletion. Administrators can define and execute policies to delete specific datasets based on criteria such as user identity, content type, and retention period.

The deletion process is secure, logged, and auditable, ensuring transparency and compliance. Vaultastic’s selective deletion capabilities help organizations honor user requests for data removal while safeguarding non-relevant data. This controlled approach to data deletion ensures that businesses can meet privacy obligations without compromising their broader regulatory or operational requirements.

Absolutely. Vaultastic’s flexible architecture and compliance-ready features enable it to meet the needs of a variety of industries beyond financial services, including:

• Healthcare: Adhering to data retention and security requirements under HIPAA for patient confidentiality.
• Education: Safeguarding student and faculty records in line with global education data protection laws.
• Manufacturing: Preserving intellectual property, trade secrets, and operational records in compliance with industry standards.
• Legal: Ensuring the integrity of communication and case-related records for e-discovery and litigation readiness.

Vaultastic’s built-in security measures, configurable retention policies, and advanced e-discovery tools make it adaptable for any regulated industry, ensuring compliance across multiple regulatory frameworks.

Vaultastic is built with a forward-looking approach to ensure compliance with emerging data privacy regulations worldwide. The platform’s adherence to foundational principles like data encryption, residency, and retention flexibility positions it to adapt to new laws quickly. For example:

• Data Localization: Vaultastic supports storing data in specific geographic regions, addressing localization mandates like India’s DPDPA or Brazil’s LGPD.
• Right to Erasure: Tools for selective data deletion align with global privacy laws, including GDPR.
• Transparency: Vaultastic maintains detailed audit trails to meet regulatory requirements for accountability and reporting.

As new data protection laws emerge or existing regulations evolve, Vaultastic continuously updates its capabilities and processes to remain compliant. By leveraging its shared responsibility model, Vaultastic empowers organizations to navigate the dynamic global privacy landscape with confidence.

Vaultastic operates under a shared responsibility model with our customers, while helping them comply with the the global data protection laws such as GDPR, HIPAA and DPDPA

Vaultastic is designed to meet the stringent requirements of global data protection laws, including GDPR, HIPAA, and DPDPA. It employs robust security measures such as AES-256 encryption for data at rest and in transit, ensuring sensitive information remains private and secure. Vaultastic supports data minimization principles by offering granular controls over data retention and deletion, enabling compliance with laws like GDPR’s Right to Erasure and HIPAA’s healthcare data safeguards.

The platform provides role-based access control to ensure that only authorized personnel can access specific data, aligning with DPDPA’s data privacy mandates. Furthermore, Vaultastic maintains a detailed audit trail of all activities, providing transparency and accountability for data management. 

Regular vulnerability assessments and adherence to global security standards make Vaultastic a reliable partner for organizations operating under stringent data protection regulations.

Vaultastic incorporates features specifically designed to comply with financial sector regulations laid out by RBI, SEBI, and IRDAI. It ensures that all communication data, including emails and files, are stored securely and preserved in an immutable format for required retention periods, typically ranging from 7 to 12 years. Vaultastic provides advanced e-discovery tools for quick retrieval of data during audits or compliance checks, ensuring regulatory readiness.

The platform supports data residency mandates, ensuring that financial data remains within the country’s borders, a requirement set by Indian regulators. Regular independent security audits, adherence to cybersecurity frameworks, and multi-layered encryption further ensure compliance with financial industry standards. 

Vaultastic’s tamper-proof storage and legal hold capabilities provide additional assurance, helping financial institutions maintain trust and regulatory alignment.

Vaultastic is a cloud-native platform that leverages the scalability of the cloud to deliver high performance with efficiency. Its architecture supports massive data ingestion, automatically scaling based on workload demands. 

Vaultastic also utilizes a scalable indexing system built on elastic cloud storage, creating a “bottomless” archive that can grow infinitely while keeping your data in a search-ready form. These modern, cloud-based technologies ensure Vaultastic delivers high performance without the high cost, making it an optimal solution for long-term data storage and retrieval.