Privacy That Travels With Your Data

IronShard gives organizations GDPR-grade protection no matter where their data lives. Instead of relying on the privacy policy of any single cloud provider, IronShard applies a sovereignty layer above them. Personal data stays protected, compliant, and unreadable, even when distributed across regions or stored in environments that would normally be off-limits.

A Cloud Provider-Independent Privacy Model

Every object stored in IronShard is transformed into encrypted fragments and dispersed across multiple storage providers and geographic regions. Each provider holds only a small, encrypted piece, never a complete file. On their own, these fragments reveal nothing and cannot be reconstructed or interpreted.

This design guarantees that:

• No individual provider can ever rebuild a full file, even with full access to their infrastructure.
• No single region or cloud sees raw personal data, removing accidental residency violations.
• Compliance does not depend on where buckets live, IronShard enforces protection independently of the underlying storage.
• GDPR-regulated data can safely span multi-cloud, hybrid, and cross-border architectures, without exposing file contents or breaching local restrictions.

Data Sovereignty Through Fragmentation

Traditional storage systems tie GDPR compliance to physical location. IronShard flips the model: Compliance comes from how data is stored, not where. Because encrypted fragments are meaningless individually, underlying providers cannot inspect, extract, or infer anything about the file.

This makes it possible to use:

• Global cloud regions
• Mixed cloud providers
• Third-party infrastructure
• Hybrid on-prem + cloud setups

…without putting personal or regulated data at risk.

The Intelligence Layer That Keeps You Compliant

IronShard coordinates access, reconstruction, and policy enforcement through its own secure intelligence layer.

Storage providers remain passive fragment hosts: they never participate in reassembly, governance, or inspection.

The result is a system where:

• Providers only hold encrypted, partial fragments
• IronShard alone orchestrates policies, access decisions, and fragment retrieval
• Data is reconstructed only for authorized users inside the governed environment

This architecture makes IronShard inherently GDPR-ready everywhere, even in storage configurations that would normally violate residency or access rules.

Why This Matters

Organizations can finally modernize their storage strategy (e.g., multi-cloud, global, cost-optimized) without compromising privacy obligations. IronShard ensures that your data stays compliant across:

• Borders
• Providers
• Infrastructures
• Future regulatory shifts

Your data stays yours. Your compliance stays intact. Your storage options stay wide open.