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What benefits does Oudles Vault give?


The two data types

Proprietary Data

You enjoy your role, because it creates wealth and value, a tool everybody uses is data! It exists in many forms - photos, CAD drawings, documents, earnings forecast spreadsheets, quarter results and inteligence. All are proprietary data and have enormous value - they deliver your competitive advantage, loss of which thru trade secret breach, is infinately more damaging than a custodial breach. Look at chart 3 opposite - Do you want to put a number on it?

Custodial Data

Custodial data, is the data you hold about your clients and customers in order to provide effective services to them. It has little intrinsic value, but it change's state upon loss or theft into toxic data. It is called toxic data because when it spills, it poisons your organisations environment and the publicity it receive's. It requires mandatory reporting and enforced financial penalties. It is more easily measured than Proprietary, becuase it is more enforced, and more widely publicised.



Vault can be configured to sanitise it's contents in any or all, of these three modes

Question: At present I VPN onto my network, also my laptop is fully encrypted. How can Oudles Vault be better than this?

First generation encryption offerings like FDE (Full disc encryption), encrypt the entire hard disk using a single encryption key: So there is no way to protect the users data from other authorised users (insiders) accessing the machine. Here is an example- The CEO's or CFO's laptop is handed over to an I.T technician to update, or fix a problem. They must decrypt to work on the machine. Both the CEO and the technician are authorised to do this, however the CEO may not want the IT technician to view his data, with FDE decrypted, the technician can see everything. Oudles Vault enables others to access and support the machine, without compromising or decrypting the "owners" sensitive data.

  1. On loss or theft the file level encrypted but sensitive data you store in vault can be sanitised beyond commercially available forensic recovery. FDE or full disk encryption only applies one key to the entire machine, and can not sanitise data.
  2. Speed and efficiency. Work from your local HDD securely and safely, but best of all - rapidly.
  3. Risk management. When using Oudles Vault, if a machine is stolen and with one file open or in work, the thief only see's that one file, and cannot access others. This is not the case with FDE, once in - they get it all.
  4. Loss of investment, and labour. because your sensitive data is backed up securely on the fly - should the worst happen and theft occurs, you can:-
    • Revoke access to the vault contents.
    • Trigger sanitisation of vault contents on the stolen machine.
    • Restore vault contents backup to another machine.
    • Pick up rapidly where you left off, with data breach contained.

Sooner or later

Even if you are a VPN evangelist, you will invariably end up storing and working on sensitive files from your local HDD. Honestly, let's face it VPN's get painfully slow, usually around the time when you want to remain efficient and productive. Oudles Vault enables you to work and save to the local HDD securely, eliminating the risk's associated with local file storage. It ensures & secures mobility, flexibility and efficiency.

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