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The Vault

Air-Gapped Private Cloud Infrastructure for High-Assurance Environments

The Vault is a physically isolated, multi-enclave private cloud designed for organizations that operate under persistent cyber, insider, and geopolitical threat. Built for sovereign institutions and mission-critical enterprises, The Vault delivers full data custody, zero external dependency, and provable control without sacrificing operational usability.

What is the Vault?

Designed for resilience, compliance, and geopolitical risk, The Vault is a sovereign, security-first cloud and infrastructure architecture designed for organisations that require full control, auditability, and resilience across private, public, and hybrid environments.

 

The Vault embeds security at every layer, from identity and network fabric to workload, data, and operations, while supporting regulated and classified workloads. The platform delivers end-to-end protection, continuous detection, and automated response.

 

The Vault provides a unified, defensible foundation for mission-critical and sensitive systems without relying on perimeter trust or cloud provider control. 

Typical deployments include:

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  • Government and defense agencies

  • Intelligence, law enforcement, and investigative bodies

  • Critical infrastructure operators

  • Regulated industries with sovereign data requirements

  • Large enterprises managing highly sensitive IP or national-scale risk

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Deployment Model: 

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  • Deployed on-premises or in sovereign facilities

  • Built from vetted, attestable hardware

  • Configured to client threat model and classification needs

  • Operated under strict procedural and governance controls

Why Not Traditional Cloud?

For most companies, public cloud platforms are an excellent way to scale IT. For banks, financial infrastructure providers, industrial operators, energy, utilities, and large regulated institutions, the problem is fundamentally different: your infrastructure is systemically critical.​

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Structural Constraints of Public Cloud

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Shared Trust Models
Public cloud environments rely on shared physical infrastructure, shared control planes, and third-party administrators. Even with strong logical isolation, ultimate control is external.

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Persistent Connectivity
Public cloud security depends on continuous network access for identity, monitoring, updates, and response. This expands the attack surface and creates external dependencies.

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Opaque Supply Chains
Hardware provenance, firmware integrity, and update pipelines are largely outside the customer’s visibility or control.

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Limited Sovereignty
Jurisdictional exposure, foreign legal compulsion, and cross-border data risk are inherent in globally distributed platforms.

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Restricted Auditability
Customers can monitor their workloads—but not the underlying platform, personnel, or operational processes that govern them.

Capability
Palladium
Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, OCI, GCP)
Hybrid Cloud (Azure Stack/Arc, Anthos)
Traditional On-Prem (ex VMware vSphere)
Customer owns encryption keys (BYOK / HYOK)
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Independent root of trust
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No external control plane dependency
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No multi-tenant platform risk
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Zero Trust by design
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Hardware-backed security
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Full platform auditability
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Designed for regulated / critical workloads
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Built-in ransomware / cyber recovery
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Minimal blast radius by architecture
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Core Characteristics

Physically Isolated Infrastructure

  • Multi-site deployment across sovereign facilities

  • Independent compute, storage, and network clusters

  • No external connectivity, no shared control planes

  • Dedicated enclaves for classified, restricted, and administrative workloads

Secure Endpoints & Workspaces

  • Hardened laptops and workstations with full-disk encryption

  • Policy-locked mobile devices using non-consumer OS configurations

  • Offline-capable EDR and forensic tooling

  • Mandatory code integrity and signed binaries

  • Fully isolated VDI with ephemeral desktops and no data persistence

  • Screen watermarking for deterrence and traceability

Controlled Data Ingestion & Release

  • One-way data diodes for approved inbound intelligence and data feeds

  • Manual, multi-party, cryptographically verified outbound release

  • Full audit trails and immutable evidence logs

  • Cross-domain data handling with classification-aware sanitization

Classified-Grade Data Protection

  • Encryption at rest and in transit across all layers

  • Hardware HSM-backed key storage

  • Immutable storage for logs, audit trails, and chain-of-custody

  • Secure wipe workflows and cryptographic destruction of keys

  • Long-term evidentiary integrity for oversight and investigations

Identity-Centric Zero-Trust Access

  • Offline hardware-backed PKI root of trust

  • Short-lived certificates, no standing credentials

  • Hardware-based MFA for all privileged actions

  • Device-bound identity using TPM or secure elements

  • Continuous verification tied to user, device, and context

Offline Monitoring, Detection & Response

  • Air-gapped SIEM consuming logs from all system layers

  • Integrated SOAR for automated, enclave-local response

  • One-way threat intelligence ingestion with human validation

  • Continuous integrity monitoring of filesystems and binaries

Secure your system.

Our leadership brings over 15 years of experience in high-security environments

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