Cyberstorage
Security belongs in the data. Not around it.
Myota encrypts every file at write time, shards it, and spreads the pieces across independent clouds. Breach one location and you get fragments, mathematically useless to the attacker.
Zero breaches, since inception. A public $10,000 bounty to break it, unclaimed after nearly 10,000 attempts. Run one yourself.
01 — THE BLIND SPOT
Every security tool protects access to your data. Not the data itself.
When the walls fail, the data is exposed: whole, readable, waiting. And your recovery infrastructure is more copies of the same readable data. 96% of attacks now target the backups first, and over half succeed.
Source: Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends Report
3-2-1 was built to beat hardware failure, and it still does. It was never designed for an adversary who can reach the copies. That's the layer your backups assume exists.
02 — THE MECHANISM
Shard and Spread™
Myota makes the data itself the security. Three moves, at write time.
It starts as one whole file
A single readable copy, exactly what an attacker wants, and exactly what 3-2-1 makes more of.
Encrypted the instant it’s written
Not after the fact, at write time. From here on there is no plaintext to steal.
Split into coded shards
Erasure-coded into fragments. Any single shard is meaningless; you only need a subset to rebuild.
Spread across independent clouds
AWS, Wasabi, Akamai, Dell ECS: any S3-compatible target, cloud or on-prem, mixed in any combination. The key is split the same way.
Nothing whole sits anywhere
No single location holds a recoverable copy. Breach one and you walk away with noise. That’s the security, built into the storage itself.
Kill a cloud. Watch it rebuild.
Encrypted at write time, then erasure-coded into four shards across four clouds. The key is split the same way, one share per cloud, so no whole key sits anywhere. Knock out a cloud and Myota regenerates both automatically, and your data never goes down. Two different guarantees, watched separately below.
Rebuilt from the surviving shards. SHA-256 match. Switch the payload: same result.
Real AES-256-GCM encryption + Reed-Solomon erasure coding, running locally in your browser on whatever payload you pick. To the engine it's all bytes, which is why one architecture covers every workload. No AWS, no server, nothing scripted.
| Threat | 3-2-1 backup | Shard and Spread™ |
|---|---|---|
| Ransomware reaches the copies | Every copy is a full, readable target: encrypt them all, you pay | No copy exists to encrypt, only meaningless fragments |
| A cloud / region goes dark | Lose that copy; resilience depends on having made enough copies | Rebuild from surviving shards, resiliency without redundancy |
| Attacker exfiltrates a store | Walks away with whole, readable data | Walks away with one shard: noise |
03 — PROOF, NOT PROMISE
The receipts are public.
Don't take the claim. Run the attack yourself.
04 — EVERYWHERE IT LIVES
Anywhere your data is whole, it's a target.
Switch what Shard and Spread is protecting (a file, a backup, an AI vector) and the outcome never changes. To the engine, it's all bytes. The flaw is one shape everywhere: a complete, readable copy waiting to be taken, encrypted, or corrupted.
- Primary storage
- Backups
- Archives
- Data lakes / lakehouses
- AI / RAG pipelines
- File collaboration
- BC / DR
Shard and Spread removes the whole copy. Everywhere it lives. One architecture, every workload. Your existing repos just become shard repositories, and backup stays the second line of defense.
05 — THE LEAST-EXPECTED PLACE
Your AI pipeline is the most exposed of all.
Your biggest whole copy is your data lake, and it's exactly what your AI is trained and retrieved from. A file looks whole; an AI vector doesn't. Invert the embedding and the plaintext was there all along. In our analysis of a 48-class RAG taxonomy, 37% are storage-layer attacks no application guardrail can touch.
The readable record was inside the vector all along. Published embedding-inversion attacks recover ~92% of source text.
An encrypted shard. Nothing to invert, nothing to recover. Noise.
Illustration of the attack (the plaintext is pre-authored, not live-inverted). The live 10-level lab: DirtyRAG.
FOR THE BUDGET OWNER
Cut storage cost by half. Make ransom payments impossible.
Resiliency without the redundant copies you're paying to store and protect.
96% of attacks now target the backups first, and over half succeed. When a breach finds only fragments, the incident stops being a payout and a downtime event. See the same risk demo the architects run:
Resiliency Without Redundancy
See Shard and Spread on your own data.
Type in your own bytes, take clouds offline, and watch it rebuild: encrypt, shard, attack, SHA-256 match. Real erasure coding, running in your browser.