BrickStor Web Drive
Browser access to your files, on infrastructure you own
The drive experience your users expect, from any device, with nothing to install. Your data stays on storage you control.
Cloud file storage got expensive. Control got worse.
Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box taught everyone what file access should feel like. Open a browser, find your files, send a link. What came with it was a bill that grows every year, data held in someone else's infrastructure, and access controls that stop once a user is logged in.
Universities, research institutions, and regulated businesses are reaching the same conclusion. They want the experience without the trade-offs.
BrickStor Web Drive delivers both. Your users get browser-based access to their files from anywhere. You keep the data on storage you own, in a facility you control, with security enforced where the data actually lives.
Familiar to your users. Accountable to your auditors.
What your users get
- Opening a browser is the install. Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. No agent, no VPN client, no helpdesk ticket.
- The actions they already expect. Browse, preview, upload, download, rename, and share, all governed by policy.
- Sharing outside the organization. Partners, contractors, and sponsors get access that expires on its own. They open a link in a browser, with nothing to install.
- Whatever device is in hand. Phones, tablets, and personal laptops reach data through a controlled surface, not an exception to policy.
What your organization keeps
- Custody of your own data. On your hardware, in your facility, under your jurisdiction. No provider holding your files.
- A cost model that does not scale with headcount. Capacity you own, not a per-seat subscription that resets higher every renewal.
- Visibility into what people actually do. Every action is recorded to an immutable audit trail and analyzed for behavior. Ransomware and data theft are stopped in real time, including by accounts that logged in successfully.
- One copy of the truth. The same files, policies, and audit trail whether reached from a browser or by the applications that already use the data.
Same experience. Different ownership model.
| Typical public cloud file service | BrickStor Web Drive | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | The provider's cloud and regions | Your data center, on hardware you own |
| Cost model | Per-user subscription plus egress | Capacity you own, no per-seat licensing |
| Access decisions | Account and group membership | Enforced at the data layer against user, data, and environment attributes |
| Ransomware, data theft, and insider visibility | Varies by tier, often an add-on | Native and patented, with user behavior auditing and privilege analysis |
| Audit trail | Provider-managed, retention by plan | Immutable, yours, retained on your terms |
| Recovery after an attack | Version history or a support ticket | Per-file last known good version. 1 minute RPO, 3 minute RTO |
One platform. Four ways in.
Web Drive is a peer protocol on BrickStor SP alongside NFS, SMB, and S3. All four reach the same datasets, the same policy, and the same immutable audit pipeline, partitioned by tenant, classification, and mission.
Browser access adds no second security boundary, and it is included in every BrickStor SP license.
Access control that does not stop at the login
Most file services decide what a person can reach at the moment they sign in, then trust the session. Attribute-based access control evaluates every operation instead. Who is asking, for what file, from what device, on what network, right now.
Because that evaluation happens in the storage system rather than in an application above it, there is no path to the data that bypasses it. The same holds for threat detection. Active Defense inspects file operations inline and stops ransomware, bulk exfiltration, and credentialed misuse as they happen, including from accounts that authenticated successfully.
A browser tab is a convenient way in. It is not a second security boundary to maintain.
You already have the storage. Turn on the access.
Web Drive is included with every BrickStor SP license. If BrickStor SP is already serving your SMB and NFS shares, browser access is a configuration change, not a purchase, a migration, or a second system to run.
The same datasets, the same ABAC policy, the same audit trail. Your users get a browser instead of a mapped drive and a VPN.
Technical specifications
| Access method | HTTPS / TLS 1.3 in any modern browser, no client software |
| Browsers | Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, current releases |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android |
| Identity | BrickStor AD/LDAP integration |
| File operations | Browse, preview, upload, download, rename, share (policy permitted) |
| Encryption | Per-dataset encryption with verifiable cryptoshred |
| Access control | ABAC enforcement with an external policy engine |
| Threat response | Full Active Defense, covering ransomware and data theft |
| Audit | User behavior auditing to an immutable audit trail |
| Recovery | 1 minute RPO, 3 minute RTO, per-file last known good version |
| License | Included with BrickStor SP |
Frequently asked questions
- No. BrickStor Web Drive runs on BrickStor SP in your own data center or private cloud. RackTop does not host your files and has no access to them. The browser is the client; the storage is yours.
- The user experience is deliberately similar. The ownership model is not. Your data sits on hardware you own under your own jurisdiction, the cost is capacity you buy rather than a per-seat subscription, and access decisions are enforced on every file operation against user, data, and environment attributes rather than on group membership at login. Threat detection and the audit trail are native to the platform rather than tier-dependent add-ons.
- Browse, preview, upload, download, rename, and share, subject to policy. Sharing includes access for people outside the organization through links that expire on their own.
- No. Access is over HTTPS with TLS 1.3 in any current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox, on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, or Android.
- No. It reads the same datasets and the same ABAC policy as SMB, NFS, and S3. There is one policy framework and one immutable audit trail across all four protocols, so browser access does not create a second set of permissions to reconcile.
- Yes. Active Defense inspects Web Drive operations inline, the same as the other protocols, and stops ransomware and data theft in real time. Recovery is per-file to the last known good version, with a 1 minute RPO and a 3 minute RTO.
- No. It is included with every BrickStor SP license, in BrickStor OS 23.9 and later.
- It does not have to. Web Drive runs alongside SMB, NFS, and S3 on the same datasets, so teams that depend on mapped drives keep them while others move to the browser. Both reach the same files under the same policy.
See it in your own environment
Thirty minutes is usually enough to see whether browser-based access on your own storage fits how your people actually work.