Closing the vault integrity gap for NYDFS 500.16

Vaulting data no one had verified

NYDFS Section 500.16 requires verified, ransomware-free recovery strategies. The firm had adopted a secure data vaulting approach: immutable, encrypted backups moved into a bunker account with least-privilege access.

But there was a critical gap. Backups were not verified for data integrity before entering the vault. The firm was vaulting data it could not prove was clean. If ransomware was embedded before the vault copy, the vault itself was compromised. The compliance posture was built on an assumption, not evidence.

Pre-vault Deep File Inspection

Elastio closes the vault integrity gap. The Hunt Engine performs Deep File Inspection on every backup before it enters the vault, verifying that only clean data is preserved.

• Pre-vault verification. Every backup is inspected for ransomware and corruption before it is copied to the bunker account.
• Provable compliance. NYDFS 500.16 requires verified recovery. Elastio delivers the evidence.
• Continuous monitoring. Ongoing verification ensures the vault remains trustworthy over time.
• Board-ready reporting. The CIO demonstrates compliance with evidence, not policy documents.

Compliance proved with evidence

The firm achieved NYDFS compliance with evidence of verified vault integrity. The gap between "we vault our backups" and "we can prove our vault is clean" is closed. Recovery is no longer an assumption. It is provable.