Groundbreaking security tech  +  trusted standards  =  Your competitive security edge

CyDrive protects your information automatically, closing security gaps left by traditional security mechanisms that focus on devices and networks, without frustrating your workforce or slowing down your operations.

Modern distributed workforces rely on the rapid, seamless creation, modification, and exchange of information. However, information that can’t be trusted is worse than no information at all. Trust means having confidence that the information received is the same as the information sent. CyDrive ensures complete information integrity and tamper-proofing through the comprehensive use of digital fingerprinting across the information lifecycle, and no matter where information comes from or where it goes.

CyDrive uses only NIST-standard cryptographic algorithms to ensure the highest level of security and trustworthiness for the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity guarantees it provides. These include AES-256-GCM (symmetric), RSA 4096 (asymmetric), and SHA-256 for hashing. CyDrive will incorporate CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium for post-quantum cryptography.

CyDrive creates a completely decentralized information security and management network. Instead of relying on vulnerable on-prem or cloud servers to manage information, the collective formed by every workstation in your organization becomes the server and the files representing your valuable IP are in many places at once. Decentralization eliminates attack surfaces and single points of failure, making your organization resilient to malicious cyber activity, while ensuring that information is trustworthy and always available to authorized users.

It’s not a matter of if you will be attacked but a matter of when. And when it happens, the real question is whether your preparations stopped the attack before it began. Security is more than keeping secrets; in fact, ensuring your organization’s lifeblood, its information, remains available, and that you’re resilient enough to continue business despite an attack is as, or even more important. CyDrive’s decentralization enables your organization to turn an attack that would otherwise be tragic and critical into something trivial.

CyDrive’s decentralized architecture creates an entire secure network topology and file system out of the box, using only your organization’s workstations. As a result, CyDrive can be used to supplement existing IT investments, reducing demand on overtaxed conventional client-server infrastructure and enabling flexible IT planning. CyDrive’s secure instant infrastructure can support retirement of obsolescent, expensive, or labor-intensive information management technologies in a secure, compliant manner, freeing up resources for other priorities.

Information creates an organization’s value. Safeguarding the value means preventing unauthorized disclosure and modification, but even more critically, ensuring that it’s always available, even in the face of an attack or disaster. Traditionally, this has meant periodic backups, but these often leave temporal gaps resulting in expensive, time-consuming rework. CyDrive is built around the idea that if information is so critical, it should be backed up as soon as it’s created, every time an employee hits the Save button, and completely automatically and transparently, without creating additional burdens on employees or the IT staff.

It’s tempting to let security planning focus on maintaining information’s confidentiality and integrity, but ensuring that information is always available to authorized users is at least as important. If employees can’t access the organization’s information, they can’t work, and if they can’t work, operations grind to a halt. Cybercriminals count on this when planning attacks such as ransomware, banking on the idea that it’s less inconvenient for a victim to pay the ransom than be separated from its data. CyDrive continuous backup eliminates this inconvenience, thus reducing or eliminating an attacker’s ROI, thus making the organization an unlikely target.

Backup is an essential part of your organization’s security plan. Unfortunately, traditional backups are often periodic, resulting in significant losses even when they work perfectly, and often use a centralized storage location, resulting in a single point of potential failure. CyDrive’s continuous backup capability ensures resilience and rapid recovery through a novel combination of technologies including decentralization, pervasive cryptography, and transparent automation. As a result, there is never a point when information is not backed up, there is no single target for attackers, and backed up information is never available to unauthorized users. Additionally, CyDrive’s automation ensures that no additional work is created for either employees or the IT department.

Change happens. When many people are collaborating to produce a product, information changes rapidly and continuously, and in most cases, and change is good. Unfortunately, uncontrolled change can be bad. People working together can destroy value that has been created by their colleagues, by inadvertently altering or overwriting information and changing files, resulting in lost time and costly rework. CyDrive’s built in version control ensures that change stays positive. CyDrive version control automatically keeps track of every change made to your work product. If a mistake is made, you can turn back the clock and compare earlier versions of your work to fix the mistake in seconds while minimizing disruption across your team.

CyLogic believes solutions should be painless, comprehensive, and transparent. As a result, CyDrive automates as much as possible, and the version control capability is no exception. Every time a CyDrive user makes changes to or creates work, those changes are automatically managed, and a new version of the work is created, enabling authorized users to see who made what changes at what time. CyDrive version control is enabled and assured by powerful mathematics including directed acyclic graphs. As a result, CyDrive version control works seamlessly in concert with document and information management and comparison technologies such as those found in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat.

Version control in CyDrive happens as soon as a user clicks save and is integrated with CyDrive’s information management processes. This means that every change to every work product, whether it’s a document, presentation, an image, a spreadsheet or anything else is automatically versioned and managed. When a file is updated, CyDrive automatically shards the file. This contributes to both security and version control, enabling CyDrive to update only those shards containing the changes. This makes CyDrive version control extremely storage efficient, resulting in significant economies for organizations using CyDrive.

Having reliable access to its information is vital for any business, particularly if your organization handles critical or sensitive information, or information that creates your competitive advantage. Unfortunately, information stored locally or on a server, or even backed up conventionally isn’t resistant to attacks that seek to change it maliciously. This is where the concept of immutable storage comes in. Information stored immutably cannot be changed or modified after being created, but it can serve as the basis for new, related information. CyDrive incorporates immutable storage into all aspects of its information management, storage, backup, and exchange capabilities. As a result, it automatically protects your most important information from being altered, deleted, or tampered with, enabling the highest standard of information protection available.

The technologies enabling CyDrive’s immutable storage capabilities were chosen for their effectiveness and computational efficiency, as well as their compliance with established standards, trustworthiness, and proven ability over time and across many implementations. These include industry standard cryptographic functions approved for use in US Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3, such as AES in block and stream cipher implementations, and the SHA-2 and SHA-3 cryptographically secure hash algorithms. They also include mathematical constructs such as the Merkle tree (a data construct in which child node is identified with the cryptographic hash of a data block, and every parent node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes, enabling rapid and secure verification of the contents of large data structures), whose other implementations include blockchain.