Quantum Data Vault

Protected business data.
Keep files private and recovery testable.

Protect operational files while giving authorized teams a way to check integrity and plan recovery. Evaluate client-side protection, distributed storage, and access rules against the documents your business actually needs to retain.

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Scoped access · Check the exact operation and deployment.

Protected recordWho can retrieve and verify this?
  1. Protected file
  2. Access boundary
  3. Integrity & recovery
Illustrative workflow · availability and access controls apply
A familiar challenge

An investigator needs a supporting file. The organization needs to protect its contents and understand whether recovery is possible.

A more useful way forward

Plan access, integrity checks, and recovery together. Confirm key ownership and storage availability for the deployment.

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Why it matters

Plan for retrieval, not just storage.

For business-data, records-management, and platform teams.

Protect at the source

Keep plaintext protection inside the trusted client boundary rather than handing readable files to the storage plane.

Separate storage responsibilities

Evaluate placement and recovery across the configured storage domains instead of assuming one provider is the whole resilience story.

Make recovery deliberate

Treat reconstruction as an authorized workflow with purpose, destination, and retained evidence.

Core capabilities

The capabilities behind the outcome.

Match these capabilities to your workflow. Enabled operations and access are confirmed during integration planning.

  • Client-side protection

    Review how content is protected before storage and who controls the required keys.

  • Distributed storage

    Inspect the deployed distribution and reconstruction settings rather than assuming a demonstration layout.

  • Access and integrity

    Separate permission to retrieve content from the records used to check its integrity.

  • Recovery planning

    Test retrieval and reconstruction with the required keys and sufficient available storage pieces.

Inspect public records Review documented operations

Public records illustrate inspectable data; they are not customer results or confirmation of production activation.

How Quantum Data Vault works

Protect the file. Preserve its integrity. Govern recovery.

  1. 01
    Protect and commit

    The trusted client protects the content and establishes the commitments used to identify its integrity.

  2. 02
    Distribute and check

    Apply the configured storage placement and integrity checks without routine plaintext reconstruction.

  3. 03
    Authorize recovery

    Require the applicable access, purpose, and destination controls before reconstructing the protected object.

Where this fits

A reference to a document is not access to the document.

Teams need to identify and review protected information without circulating the information itself. Keep four concepts separate: the protected file, its descriptive metadata, the evidence used to check integrity, and the authority required to retrieve it. Data Vault’s documented read operations expose permitted object metadata and evidence; they are not a download or key-delivery service.

Evaluation checklist

Suggested tests—not recorded customer results. Run them only with agreed access and representative non-production data.

Inspect an authorized object

Expected result
An authorized operator can read permitted metadata; do not present an encrypted-content root as a file download.
Evidence to retain
The object reference, returned evidence, and principal/workspace scope used.

Test unauthorized access

Expected result
An unauthorized request discloses no protected payload or key material.
Evidence to retain
The denied request outcome and the exact access boundary exercised.

Test an enabled recovery route

Expected result
Agree the retrieval route, required keys, and failure scenario before a separately enabled test; metadata reads do not enable recovery.
Evidence to retain
Observed recovery outcome, dependencies, and any unresolved failure—not an assumed durability claim.

See how protected data, agent context, and wallet controls fit together.

Start with this guide

Protect business information and verify its evidence

Inspect owner-scoped Data Vault metadata and integrity evidence, then plan authorized retrieval and recovery without mistaking a commitment for a file.

One useful first evaluation.

Follow the worked example, inspect the current contracts, and use the failure cases and checklist to review your own results.

Read the practical guide
Scoped access

Plan your first deployment.

Validate the trusted client, storage placement, permissions, retention, and recovery path for your workspace. Illustrative shard counts describe examples, not the health or topology of your own stored files.

Before your first integration

  • Choose the data classification, key owners, and retention requirements.
  • Confirm access, distribution, and reconstruction settings for your deployment.
  • Run an authorized recovery test and a denied-access test before relying on storage.
Review the integration Check the API contract
Open workspace
Questions before you build

Quantum Data Vault, explained.

Can someone read the file from its public proof?

The intended public record contains commitments and permitted integrity evidence, not the private contents. Access to protected data follows a separate authorization boundary.

Does distributed storage remove the need for recovery testing?

No. Test the actual recovery procedure, credentials, thresholds, and failure cases. Distribution does not eliminate endpoint compromise or operational mistakes.

What should we agree before starting a pilot?

Use the product-specific checklist above to define scope and acceptance tests. Ask the team to confirm the deployment environment, access, supported operations, integration responsibilities, support arrangements, and commercial terms. Availability labels are not a pricing quote or a service-level commitment.

Explore the technical architecture and walkthroughs

Optional deeper reading. Demonstrations are illustrative, not live operational status or a promise of activation. Use the availability guidance above and the current API contract for integration decisions.

PROTECTED AT SOURCESHARDS INDEPENDENTCUSTODY DISTRIBUTEDCHALLENGES CURRENTRECOVERY GOVERNED

ONE RECORD IN ACTION

From private content
to governed recovery.

Select each stage to see what the client, storage plane, challenge service, and recovery authority are allowed to know.

ILLUSTRATIVE PRODUCT WALKTHROUGH
PROTECTED OBJECT · HEALTHY

CLIENT PROTECTION COMPLETE

Encrypt inside the trusted boundary.

The client derives the content key, encrypts the object, creates integrity commitments, and clears plaintext before transport.
PLAINTEXT SENT
NO
CIPHER
XCHACHA20
OBJECT
42.8 MIB
KEY EXPORT
PROHIBITED
CANONICAL STAGE 1 OF 5
NO PRIVATE PAYLOAD EXPOSED

CONTINUOUS INTEGRITY

Resilience should be
measured, not assumed.

Challenge schedules, custody receipts, placement diversity, repair actions, and recovery ceremonies remain observable without turning storage operators into readers of the protected data.

Open protected storage

SIX ACCOUNTABLE BOUNDARIES

Every decision
has an owner.

The platform keeps authority, policy, state transition, delivery, and evidence separate—then connects them through retained commitments.

01TRUSTED CLIENT

Encrypt content, commit the original, generate the protected manifest, and clear sensitive working material.

02SHARD ENCODING

Create a threshold set whose members remain individually useless and globally bound to one object.

03CUSTODY ADMISSION

Place shards only with admitted destinations across the required operators, regions, and fault domains.

04INTEGRITY CHALLENGES

Prove continuing possession and freshness without routine download or object reconstruction.

05ACCESS POLICY

Bind purpose, subject, device, credential, role, approval threshold, and validity to each protected action.

06RECOVERY CEREMONY

Reconstruct only at an authorized destination and retain the complete request-to-completion evidence chain.

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

Infrastructure that fits
the operating model.

Protect private data while retaining integrity and recovery evidence. Adopt the control plane directly, embed the APIs, or connect the evidence surface to an existing customer experience.

01REGULATED RECORDS

Protect customer files, compliance evidence, contracts, and case material while retaining integrity and access history.

02ENTERPRISE ARCHIVES

Preserve critical records across operators and regions without surrendering plaintext custody.

03CONFIDENTIAL DATASETS

Store research, model inputs, proprietary intelligence, and sensitive operational data with controlled recovery.

04RESILIENT BACKUP

Separate restore capability from one cloud account, one administrator, one region, or one encryption key store.

05INDUSTRIAL EVIDENCE

Connect protected raw telemetry and attachments to public-safe event commitments and retention policy.

06DIGITAL ESTATES

Govern long-duration protected records, succession policy, delegated recovery, and retained access evidence.

ONE PLATFORM FABRIC

Useful alone.
Stronger in context.

Each product consumes canonical identity, policy, state, and evidence without duplicating the responsibility of adjacent Hybrid-Chain modules.

01TRUST CENTER

Use current identity, role, accreditation, and approval claims to govern protected actions.

02EVIDENCE STREAMS

Retain large private attachments behind commitment-only machine and partner event chains.

03NATIVE MPC WALLETS

Require threshold authorization for recovery, policy changes, custody rotation, and critical exports.

04AUTOMATION

Route challenge failures, expiring policy, repair events, custody changes, and recovery milestones.

HONEST OPERATING BOUNDARY

Protection is a system.
Not a checkbox.

Client-side encryption and distributed shards reduce custody concentration, but safe production still requires audited clients, secure key derivation, independent operators, tested recovery, retention policy, lawful access procedures, monitoring, and a credible response to compromised endpoints.

LIVEPROTECTED RECORDS & INTEGRITY EVIDENCE

Create protected objects, retain manifests, challenge custody, and expose commitment-only health evidence.

LIVEPOLICY-BOUND RECOVERY WORKFLOWS

Require explicit purpose, identity, approval, target, expiry, and completion evidence.

OPERATEINDEPENDENT STORAGE DOMAINS

Production resilience depends on truly separate operators, infrastructure, regions, access controls, and recovery drills.

Start with one useful result

Your evaluation should produce…

An object-and-permission inventory, observed metadata-access checks, and a separately scoped retrieval/recovery test plan with named key-custody owners.

Suggested evaluation goals—not a pre-packaged service commitment. Agree access, scope, and responsibilities with the team.

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Build the next part of your workflow

Connected products.

Start with Quantum Data Vault. Review these adjacent capabilities when your requirements call for them.

Hybrid Cortex

Share selected knowledge, discover business needs, and build accountable connections.

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