Storage Built for the Missions Where the Cost of Being Wrong Is Highest
RackTop was founded in 2010 by U.S. Intelligence Community veterans. Each founder had already spent over a decade inside the hardest data and security problems in government — and concluded the storage industry needed to think differently. BrickStor is what came out of that conviction — deployed today across the Department of War (DoW, formerly DoD), federal civilian agencies, and the missions where data security is not optional.
Why federal is different
Federal mission environments demand things commercial storage was not designed to provide:
- ✓Dynamic access control based on clearance, program, nationality, device, and context — not static group membership
- ✓Coalition data sharing on shared infrastructure without violating release authority
- ✓Multi-program isolation on the same physical hardware without standing up separate enclaves for every SAP
- ✓Multi-level and multi-category separation at the storage layer, not just at the application
- ✓Classified data at rest up to Top Secret, deployable across borders, shareable with allies
- ✓High-speed sensor recording for ISR, SIGINT, EW, and tactical sensor missions
- ✓Edge mission processing — AI/ML and HPC on classified data at the tactical edge, in connected, disconnected, or contested environments
- ✓Audit evidence accreditors actually ask for — immutable, exportable, mapped to the controls in the authorization package
- ✓Zero compromise on security to get any of the above
Most storage vendors will tell you they can address one or two of these. RackTop built BrickStor to address all of them, on one platform, managed from one console.
How BrickStor maps to federal mission requirements
Federal Civilian and DoW Cyberstorage
Active defense against ransomware and insider threats at the storage layer for federal civilian agencies and Department of War (DoW, formerly DoD) enterprise environments where the consequences of an unstructured data breach are unacceptable.
BrickStor SP →Tactical and Edge Mission Processing
Edge data centers in a box — secure storage, sensor recording, and GPU/TPU-accelerated AI/ML compute on classified data at the tactical edge, in connected, disconnected, and contested environments.
BrickStor CSfC DAR →High Speed Data Recording
Network, RF, radar, and sensor data captured at sustained line rate, with ABAC-controlled access and Hub Central integration for offload to enterprise analysis.
BrickStor HDR →Mission Partner Environments
Coalition operations on shared infrastructure require dynamic access control that static permissions cannot express. BrickStor's native ABAC enforces policy on every file operation based on nationality, clearance, program, and context — across every product in the line.
MPE solutions →SAP and Compartmented Programs
Multiple Special Access Programs sharing physical infrastructure without standing up separate environments per program. ABAC enforces program-level isolation at the storage layer; Hub Central provides administrative visibility without compromising compartmentation.
SAP & compartmentation →MLS and MCS Classified Environments
Multi-level and multi-category secure storage where the separation has to be enforced by the storage system itself, not by middleware or by trust in the application layer.
MLS & MCS solutions →CSfC Data at Rest
NSA Commercial Solutions for Classified, DAR up to Top Secret. Powered off equals unclassified. Coalition-shareable. Available as NAS or High Speed Data Recorder, on RackTop or partner rugged hardware. Deployable across underwater, land, sea, and airborne platforms.
BrickStor CSfC DAR →Built by people who lived this
RackTop's founders — Eric Bednash and Jonathan Halstuch — came up inside the U.S. Intelligence Community. Each spent more than a decade on data and security problems where the cost of being wrong was operational before founding the company. ABAC, the four BrickStor patents, the CSfC DAR platform, and the entire Cyberstorage architecture exist because the founding team had spent years wishing they did.
About the founders →How RackTop reaches federal customers
FAQ
- Yes — through Carahsoft and other partners. Contact RackTop for the current contract vehicle list.
- BrickStor CSfC DAR supports data at rest up to Top Secret. Other BrickStor products support whatever classification level the operating environment is approved for.
- Yes, it supports the policies and controls for a coalition environment. All of the technologies and encryption are exportable to US allies.
- RackTop has offices in the DC Metro area, with team members across the region.
If your mission is federal or defense and the storage layer is the part of the architecture that keeps you up at night — that is exactly the problem RackTop was founded to solve.
Talk to a federal mission engineer
RackTop's federal team is in the DC Metro area. They understand the missions, the accreditation frameworks, and the operational requirements — because they came from them.