BrickStor SP — Real-Time Protection for Unstructured Data
Cyberstorage that sees every file operation, stops ransomware and insider abuse as it happens, and restores thousands of files in seconds — all on a single enterprise NAS platform engineered for the modern threat landscape.
A file platform engineered for the way data is attacked, recovered, and governed today
Storage built for yesterday focused on capacity, speed, and uptime. BrickStor SP keeps all of that — and adds the real-time defense, verifiable recovery, and continuous compliance that modern enterprises, federal missions, and regulated industries can no longer treat as optional.
See every file operation. Stop threats in the act.
AI-powered Active Defense evaluates every read, write, and delete against behavioral models and policy — not once a day, not after backup. When activity crosses the line, BrickStor SP contains it in real time, before ransomware, rogue insiders, or bulk exfiltration become an incident.
Recovery measured in seconds — not escalations.
Immutable snapshots, cyber-vaulted copies behind ImmutaVault's virtual air gap, and patented bulk recovery give storage and security teams a sub-minute RPO and the ability to roll thousands of files back in seconds. No backup-vendor war room required.
Zero Trust, ABAC, and audit — built in, not bolted on.
Attribute-based access control, AES-256 FIPS 140-3 end-to-end encryption, and streaming audit telemetry ship inside the platform. SOX, NIST, RMF, HIPAA, and Zero Trust become continuous posture — not a quarterly scramble across four tools.
What a Cyberstorage platform delivers in practice
Continuous immutable recovery points capture change as it happens.
Patented bulk recovery (U.S. Patent 12,561,437) reverses damage at scale.
Consolidate storage, cyber resilience, and audit into a single stack.
Protection lives inside the data path — nothing to stitch together.
Awarded by the industry. Validated by analysts.
ESG Economic Validation
“Less than half the cost of alternative NAS solutions when factoring in security, compliance, and operational overhead.”Read the economic validation →
ESG Technical Validation
“Detects and stops ransomware attacks at the storage layer in real time — before encryption spreads beyond a handful of files.”Read the technical validation →
A software-defined NAS platform with security and data services built in
BrickStor SP delivers unified file and object storage, access control, cyber defense, data protection, and tiering as features of a single platform — managed from one console. Here's what it looks like in Hub Central.
Active Defense stops attacks in the act
AI-powered Active Defense evaluates every file operation against behavioral models and policy — and stops ransomware, insider misuse, or bulk exfiltration in real time. No agents, no external scanners, no waiting for the next backup window.
Explore Active DefenseOne platform for NFS, SMB, Web Drive, and S3 — governed by ABAC
BrickStor SP serves NFS, SMB, Web Drive, and S3 from the same dataset with full protocol interoperability. Attribute-based access control enforces fine-grained policy on every protocol based on user, device, project, clearance, and context — so the file and object face of the same data honors one policy framework.
Explore ABACSecure browser-based file access — no client install
BrickStor Web Drive delivers secure file access through any modern browser, alongside NFS, SMB, and S3 — with the same ABAC policy enforced on every operation. Users get the data they need without VPN gymnastics, mapped drives, or a desktop client to install, patch, and manage.
Simplified management with Hub Central
Hub Central unifies monitoring, configuration, and policy across every BrickStor deployment — edge, core, or cloud — in a single console. ABAC policies, replication topologies, audit telemetry, and software updates are managed once and applied everywhere.
Explore Hub CentralUser Behavior Auditing you can actually use
Every file operation is captured in an immutable, tamper-evident audit log with full user, session, and context detail. Behavioral analytics surface anomalous access patterns, support investigations after the fact, and produce the evidence auditors and inspectors actually ask for.
FIPS AES-256 encryption and integrated key management
End-to-end AES-256 encryption validated to FIPS 140-3 protects data at rest and in transit. Integrated key management, automated key rotation, and HSM/KMIP integration make encryption operationally simple — not a side project for the security team.
Immutable snapshots and replication, policy-driven
Policy-driven immutable snapshots capture change with a sub-minute RPO, while asynchronous replication pushes protected copies to one or more target BrickStor systems. Snapshots cannot be modified or deleted by administrators — recovery points survive even privileged compromise.
Transparent Data Movement — patented policy-driven tiering
TDM automatically moves cold and warm data from BrickStor SP to S3 object storage, NFS targets, or another BrickStor — with files remaining accessible through the original path. Patented TDM extends capacity without disrupting users or applications.
Explore TDMImmutaVault — patented virtual air gap
ImmutaVault creates patented virtual air-gapped, immutable copies of critical data that survive even when an attacker has administrative access. Trusted recovery points without tape, offline media, or a second site to manage.
Explore ImmutaVaultGHOST — cut over before you copy
GHOST (Global Hands-Off Storage Transfer) inverts the order of NAS migration. Users move to BrickStor SP first — in hours — and data migrates in the background. Cyberstorage protections engage at the cutover line. Permissions, metadata, and live access are preserved. The silent window of exposure between legacy NAS and a fully-protected platform is gone.
Explore GHOSTNetApp, Dell PowerScale, and VAST Data serve files fast.
BrickStor SP serves files fast — and defends them.
Traditional enterprise NAS, scale-out file systems, and all-flash disaggregated platforms are engineered to move unstructured data quickly and keep it available. They do those jobs well. What they leave to someone else is the assumption that another product — a scanner, a backup appliance, a vault, a SIEM — will catch the attack, prove the audit, and rescue the data. BrickStor SP is built on a different assumption.
Active protection — not passive storage
Traditional enterprise NAS and scale-out file platforms trust the network, the endpoint, and the backup window. BrickStor SP assumes the adversary is already inside and evaluates every file operation against behavior models and policy in real time.
Vaulting and recovery as native capability
ImmutaVault cyber vaulting, immutable snapshots, and patented bulk recovery are features of the platform — not a second appliance, backup license, or security overlay. One deployment, one support contract, one operational model.
Policy you can prove
Attribute-based access control, AES-256 FIPS 140-3 encryption, and granular audit streams produce the evidence CISOs, auditors, and regulators actually ask for — without stitching logs across four vendors to get there.
Simple enough for an IT generalist
Because defense, vaulting, tiering, and audit are built into the platform — not assembled from a dozen specialist tools — customers consistently tell us BrickStor is easier to learn and operate than the storage and security products it replaces. One team, one skill set, less tribal knowledge required.
The operational impact: security, storage, and compliance teams stop paying the integration tax — and stop needing four specialists to run what should be one platform. One team produces the telemetry, enforces the policy, keeps the recovery points, and serves the workload, with fewer moving parts and a smaller attack surface.
Side-by-side comparison
See exactly where BrickStor SP delivers what NetApp, Dell PowerScale, VAST Data, and Pure FlashBlade don't.
Twelve capabilities, five vendors, one grid — built-in vs. bolt-on, native vs. partial, with vendor-specific notes on every cell. Prefer the architecture argument first? Read Built-In vs. Bolt-On →
Results that show up from day one
BrickStor SP changes how your organization manages unstructured data risk the moment it goes live.
Extend Zero Trust to the storage layer
Continuous, real-time trust evaluation for every data operation — not just the network edge. Stop data theft and exfiltration.
Stop ransomware before recovery is the only plan
Block threats as they happen and support rapid remediation rather than relying on post-attack restoration.
Reduce insider risk
Detect and halt unauthorized data access through user activity monitoring, auditing, and stronger policy controls.
Meet compliance with less effort
Pursue audit-ready posture across SOX, NIST, RMF, HIPAA, and more without stitching tools together.
Simplify the security architecture
Close the seams between storage, security, and compliance by folding protection into one platform.
Deploy with flexibility
Edge, core, and cloud deployment models align the architecture to mission, performance, and regulatory requirements.
Protected by U.S. patents — not marketing claims.
Three ways to deploy BrickStor SP
The same Cyberstorage architecture — Active Defense, ABAC, ImmutaVault, IBR, TDM, and FIPS 140-3 encryption — delivered as a physical appliance, a SAN gateway on top of any block storage, or a virtual appliance for private and public cloud.
Physical Appliance
Configure and drop a scalable BrickStor appliance into your infrastructure. Get up and running in minutes on RackTop or partner hardware (HPE, Crystal Group, Curtiss-Wright).
Hardware configurations →SAN Gateway
Connect to block capacity via iSCSI or Fibre Channel to create high-performance, highly-available secure NAS. Validated with Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), HPE, IBM, and JetStor.
SAN Gateway →Virtual Appliance
Replace Windows and Linux file servers with an easy-to-manage secure cross-platform solution. Available by subscription. Nutanix Ready; runs on KVM, Hyper-V, ESXi, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Virtual Appliance →Explore the BrickStor platform
Frequently asked questions
- BrickStor SP is RackTop's Cyberstorage platform for protecting unstructured data with integrated security, compliance, resilience, and file services — delivered as a single enterprise NAS stack.
- Traditional and scale-out file platforms are engineered for performance and availability; they leave threat detection, zero trust enforcement, and cyber vaulting to separate tools. BrickStor SP folds AI-powered Active Defense, ImmutaVault cyber vaulting, immutable snapshots, ABAC, AES-256 FIPS 140-3 encryption, and audit telemetry directly into the storage layer — so one platform delivers what most environments assemble from three or four products. Relying on external products creates a brittle and vulnerable data infrastructure.
- BrickStor SP uses patented Active Defense to detect and stop ransomware attacks the moment they begin — terminating the offending session inline at the storage layer before files are mass-encrypted. Immutable snapshots and patented Intelligent Bulk Remediation then automatically restore any files affected before the attack was stopped, returning the environment to a clean state in minutes instead of days. ImmutaVault cyber vaulting adds a virtual air gap for the most critical data, protecting it from data exfiltration and administrative compromise even when credentials are stolen. The combined effect is assured recovery — dramatically shortened recovery time, a sub-minute RPO for cyber incidents, and a clear, repeatable path back to normal operations after an attack.
- Yes. BrickStor SP extends Zero Trust architecture to the data layer with continuous, real-time trust evaluation, attribute-based access control, and end-to-end encryption.
- SMB, NFS, S3, and BrickStor Web Drive (secure browser-based file access with no client install) — all served from the same dataset with full protocol interoperability and one ABAC policy framework, engineered to sustain mixed enterprise workloads.
- Turnkey appliance, SAN gateway, cloud, or virtual machine — across edge, core, and cloud environments.
- Yes. BrickStor SP is designed to integrate with SIEMs, SOARs, and third-party APIs so security teams keep their existing operational model.
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