Platform Features

Built for resilience,
not just storage

Every feature in Grovia Vault is designed around one principle: your data must survive anything — ransomware, human error, cloud provider outages, or compliance audits.

Everything in one lightweight agent

Nine production-grade capabilities, all included. No add-on modules, no surprise pricing.

AES-256-GCM Encryption

Every backup chunk is encrypted client-side before transmission using AES-256-GCM — the same standard used by financial institutions globally. Your encryption key is derived from your passphrase using SHA-256, which means the server never sees plaintext data, ever.

  • SHA-256 key derivation from passphrase
  • GCM mode provides integrity verification
  • Zero-knowledge architecture
  • Per-chunk unique nonce

Ransomware Detection Engine

A 5-layer detection engine scores every file change before it reaches the backup pipeline. Files that look suspicious are flagged, threat alerts are fired, and backups can be paused automatically to prevent encrypting a poisoned dataset.

  • Shannon entropy analysis (threshold: 7.5)
  • Magic byte / MIME mismatch detection
  • 18 ransomware extension signatures
  • Ransom note filename patterns
  • Change velocity monitoring (10× baseline)

Multi-Cloud Air-Gap

Your data lives in three geographically and vendor-isolated locations. Even if one provider is compromised or suffers an outage, your data remains safe and recoverable from the others.

  • Wasabi — hot-tier primary storage
  • Backblaze B2 — air-gap copy every 30 min
  • AWS S3 — 7-year compliance archive
  • Presigned PUT URLs (15-min expiry)

One-Click Restore

Browse your backup history, choose any point in time, select specific files or trigger a full restore. Recovery begins immediately from the closest replica — Wasabi hot-tier for speed or B2 for resilience.

  • Point-in-time granularity
  • File-level or full-volume restore
  • Average 5 GB restore under 3 minutes
  • Restore to same or alternate location

Microsoft 365 Backup

Microsoft only retains deleted items for 93 days. Grovia Vault creates an independent, encrypted, air-gapped copy of your entire Microsoft 365 estate — separate from Microsoft's infrastructure.

  • Exchange Online email & calendars
  • SharePoint sites & document libraries
  • OneDrive personal & shared drives
  • Microsoft Teams channels & chat

Incremental Backup

Only changed file blocks are transferred after the initial full backup. SHA-256 change detection identifies exactly what's new, minimising bandwidth usage and backup time — critical for low-bandwidth environments.

  • Block-level change detection via SHA-256
  • zstd compression (fastest preset)
  • Skips pre-compressed files (JPEG, MP4, ZIP)
  • Configurable bandwidth throttle

MSP Multi-Tenant Console

Purpose-built for managed service providers. Manage every client from one dashboard with complete tenant isolation enforced at the database level via PostgreSQL Row-Level Security.

  • Enrollment tokens for zero-touch deployment
  • Per-client analytics and reporting
  • Policy templates pushed to all agents
  • Impersonation for support workflows

Policy Management

Define backup policies centrally and push them to any number of agents in under 60 seconds. Set backup paths, cron schedules, retention windows, bandwidth limits, and threat response actions — all from the cloud dashboard.

  • Cron-based scheduling (per-agent or global)
  • Configurable retention periods
  • Bandwidth throttle policies
  • Threat-response automation

Threat Alerts & Audit Trail

Real-time threat notifications via email and webhook when the detection engine scores a file above the alert threshold. A complete, tamper-evident audit trail of every backup, restore, and policy change — essential for DPDP and RBI compliance.

  • Instant email threat alerts
  • Webhook / Slack integration
  • Immutable audit log
  • DPDP 2023 compliance reports

How Vault catches ransomware

Five detection layers run in sequence on every file change. A composite threat score determines whether a backup proceeds, alerts fire, or the process is halted.

Layer 1 — Shannon Entropy

+35 pts

Encrypted ransomware payloads have very high information entropy. Any file scoring above 7.5 bits/byte (random-looking content) is flagged as high-risk. Normal document files typically score 3–6.

threshold: 7.5 bits/byte

Layer 2 — Magic Byte / MIME Mismatch

+25 pts

Ransomware often disguises encrypted files with innocent extensions (.pdf, .docx) while the actual file header doesn't match. Vault reads the magic bytes of every file and flags mismatches between the real type and the extension.

libmagic + MIME registry

Layer 3 — Extension Blocklist

+30 pts

18 known ransomware extensions are blocked outright: .locked, .encrypted, .crypted, .enc, .crypto, .vault, .cerber, .locky, .wannacry, .petya, .zepto, .thor, .aesir, .zzzzz, .osiris, .lnk, .micro, .ttt. Any match triggers an immediate alert.

18 ransomware signatures

Layer 4 — Ransom Note Patterns

+40 pts

Ransomware always leaves instructions for the victim. Vault watches for file creation matching known ransom note patterns: README, DECRYPT, RECOVER, HOW_TO, ATTENTION, YOUR_FILES. Any match scores maximum points and triggers immediate block.

regex filename matching

Layer 5 — Change Velocity Monitoring

+20 pts per 2× above baseline

Ransomware encrypts files at machine speed — far faster than a human working. Vault tracks each endpoint's average file-change rate and alerts when velocity exceeds 10× the 7-day baseline. This catches novel ransomware strains that don't match any signature.

rolling 7-day baseline · 10× multiplier threshold

Three tiers. Total coverage.

Your data flows through a pipeline designed so no single point of failure — not even a cloud provider going offline — can make your backups inaccessible.

Tier 1 — Hot

Primary Storage

Wasabi Object Storage
  • Fastest restore times (nearest replica)
  • Egress-free pricing (no download fees)
  • S3-compatible API
  • 99.999999999% (11 9s) durability
  • US-East & India data centres available
Tier 2 — Air-Gap

Air-Gap Copy

Backblaze B2
  • Independent copy every 30 minutes
  • Separate provider — true air-gap
  • Ransomware cannot propagate across providers
  • Object Lock support for immutability
  • Cost-efficient ($6/TB/month)
Tier 3 — Compliance

Long-Term Archive

AWS S3 Glacier
  • 7-year retention for compliance
  • RBI / SEBI / DPDP 2023 audit-ready
  • S3 Object Lock WORM compliance
  • Versioned object history
  • Data residency in ap-south-1 (Mumbai)
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