The storage platform protects the repository. Vaultize governs the working copy.
Storage Lead, CISO, Data Governance
Per-file encryption and DRM access
Versioning and centralized activity records
The answer in 30 seconds
Extend file-level encryption, rights, revocation and evidence beyond the SMB or NFS permission boundary.
Challenge the status quo
Enterprise storage platforms do an excellent job of protecting the data they hold. SMB and NFS permissions, snapshots, replication and cyber recovery secure the repository. But the business value of a file begins when someone opens, copies, downloads or shares it.
Copy-out route
Folder permission
Ends when copied
Sealed file
Rights leave with it
Each one ends the same way: a permission that governed the folder, and a copy the folder can no longer reach.
Why this matters now
Ask the customer: when a sensitive file leaves this share, who controls what happens next? That question turns an ordinary file-services conversation into a security and compliance opportunity.
That is where the governance gap appears. The file leaves the share and enters an endpoint, email, cloud folder or partner workflow. Storage permissions and native activity records no longer travel with it as persistent rights.
File shares remain the system of work for contracts, HR data, legal records, financial files, drawings and project documents. Hybrid work has increased copy-off, while ransomware and data-leak concerns have expanded the conversation beyond availability to confidentiality and evidence.
A secure file share can still become the source of uncontrolled copies. Organizations may recover the repository after an incident but remain unable to revoke or trace the document already copied elsewhere.
The storage platform continues to store, replicate, detect, preserve and recover. Vaultize adds per-file protection, policy-based access, revocation, versioning and centralized activity records to the governed working copy. This is not storage replacement; it is a data-governance layer that extends the value of the storage investment.
Cost of inaction
Access, retention and redistribution continue beyond the organization’s effective reach.
Audit and investigation depend on fragmented records or voluntary cooperation.
Confidentiality loss can affect revenue, litigation, compliance, trust and strategic position.
Offboarding, revocation, recovery or legal retrieval becomes manual and uncertain.
The Vaultize value proposition
Vaultize carries identity, protection, policy, revocation and activity evidence with the sensitive file. Existing infrastructure remains essential; Vaultize closes the continuing-governance gap after the file moves, is shared or is downloaded.
Vaultize Seal encrypts the document itself at source, so protection becomes a property of the file rather than of the folder it was sitting in. The rights that govern view, print, copy, edit and forward are sealed in at the same moment, and the copy carries them into whatever endpoint, mailbox or cloud folder it lands in. Applied within the supported Vaultize workflow and policy configuration.
Once the working copy has left, the controls are still live. Access can be revoked in real time after download or distribution, geo, IP, time, device and domain fencing decide where and when the file opens at all, and every viewed copy can carry a watermark identifying who is looking at it. Where the copy leaves deliberately, Vaultize Share governs the release through MFA-enabled links with policy, audit and recall.
Vaultize Secure keeps an immutable version history of the governed file, so the version that was correct on a given date remains addressable after the working copy has been edited, overwritten or damaged. Point-in-time recovery returns that version at the size of the loss, and the history is held as an immutable golden copy rather than as whichever draft survived on the endpoint.
Vaultize Seal records every access to the sealed file, Vaultize Share records every recipient of a governed link, and Vaultize Secure holds tamper-evident records alongside the version history. What happened to the copy after it left sits in one evidence trail instead of being reconstructed from whatever each landing point happened to log.
Architecture fit
Best fit for
Storage, infrastructure and security teams. Start where the business impact is highest and expand through repeatable policy.
How Vaultize fits
Vaultize complements the customer’s existing storage, identity, DLP, email, endpoint, network and recovery controls by governing the file after those systems have done their job.
Discovery questions
When a sensitive file leaves the share, who controls what happens next?
Which documents, users and external workflows create the highest exposure for file share governance beyond SMB NFS?
What happens today when access must be withdrawn, evidence produced or the correct version recovered?
Frequently asked
Clear answers for buyers and evaluators.
Extend file-level encryption, rights, revocation and evidence beyond the SMB or NFS permission boundary. Vaultize adds per-file protection, policy-based access, revocation, versioning and centralized activity records to the governed working copy, so those controls remain with the copy after it leaves the share.
A practical next step
A focused 30-minute review to map the documents, sharing paths and control gaps that matter most in your environment.
