Software
Resilient User-friendly & Feature-rich NAS Software
Seamless Networking.Intelligent Storage.
SecureNAS® Software designed to reduce the complexity of data security.
With FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated cryptographic modules, OpenZFS, automated backup, and migration come installed on every SecureNAS® making sharing data between many connected devices a breeze.
A light web GUI frees up memory for other important data serving tasks.
A simplified approach to sharing files between collaborators on your network
Comes installed on every SecureNAS® appliance and costs $0.
Provides a scalable solution built for the unique requirements of your business. We partner with you during every step to ensure that your system is optimized to save you time and money.
ZFS integration offers petabyte scalability at a reduced cost. Simply connect another Ciphertex® storage device and configure it via the primary controller interface.
From the convenience of a lightweight web interface, users can configure ZFS storage pools and file systems, and encrypt/compress volumes.
The SecureNAS® portfolio allows you to tailor, deploy and manage your infrastructure while lowering operating costs. Future proof your office or data center with expandable compute- ready network storage
SecureNAS® provides a comprehensive, cyber-resilient architecture with security embedded into every server to protect your data. Use Instant Secure Erase to help ensure data privacy when you repurpose your network storage or after offloading data.
IT Management For All Environments
Manage Ciphertex SecureNAS® servers in virtual, local, and remote environments.
Accomplish More With Intelligent Storage
With automated redundancy and backup tools integrated across the SecureNAS® solutions portfolio, your systems work for you.
Manage With Clarity
An intuitive interface displays real-time health and status of your server infrastructure.
Cybersecurity At The Edge
Ciphertex® developed security packages enhance your networks safety, speed, and bring cybersecurity to your private edge.
Ciphertex Protect® Key
FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified Ciphertex Protect® hardware encryption keys can be paired and managed within the storage management platform.
Optimize With Deduplication
A highly optimized version of block-based data deduplication to reduce storage space consumption while improving read/write speeds.
Uncompromising Performance and Density for Productivity and Scale
SecureNAS® intelligent management means you spend less time on routine maintenance so you can focus on your business’s priorities.
Cross-environment connectivity
For wide ranging compatibility, the storage platform supports the
following protocols: FTP, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, WebDAV, and Rsync
Ultimate expansion option
Modern IT infrastructures are powerful and adaptable, yet, often challenging to manage. Ciphertex SecureNAS® Series and CiphertexOS® help reduce the complexity of your IT infrastructure with intuitive tools that work together to deliver automated, repeatable processes to enable simple management.
SMB / CIFS
- iSCSI
- WebDav
Optional Network/Graphic Interface Cards
10G Copper / Fibre
Upgradable to 50G Fibre and *200G on
select systems
Resilient Next Generation Storage
Scale up or scale out with ZFS.
ZFS architecture works similarly to traditional hardware RAID, except it uses smaller RAIDs in partitions called “Vdevs”, or virtual devices. ZFS detects silent data corruption better than traditional RAID and it writes data to a log before writing to storage blocks — if a drive fails or the system shuts down unexpectedly, the cached log will store the writes-in- process until ZFS determines it’s safe to resume.
ZFS RAID-Z Redundancy Levels:
- Striped Mirror
- RAIDZ-1
- RAIDZ-2
- RAIDZ-3
- Striped Set
Features
- Security and Encryption
- Storage & Sharing
- Administration & Permissions
- OpenZFS
- Networking
- Backup, Restore & Rsync
- Advanced Settings
- Optimize File Sharing
- Data Integrity
- Volume Encryption
- OpenZFS
- Scalability
- Resilient RAIDZ
- BCDR Readiness
CiphertexOS® offers a wide range of storage and networking features for SMB and enterprise IT administrators.
Storage Administration for IT Professionals
Free, secure, and intelligent, Ciphertex® OS is the go-to NAS solution for serving data on-premises and moving data between locations.
Data Security is What We Do
CiphertexOS® combined with the Ciphertex Protect® AES 256-bit hardware encryption key delivers top-level cybersecurity at the edge – without the decryption passcode, nobody can access your system.
Administration Made Easy
The CiphertexOS® dashboard gives administrators an in-depth overview of the SecureNAS® system’s current status, performance, and storage usage.
USB Port Firewall
Administrators have the ability to easily enable USB port blocking and to prevent unauthorized system access. When enabled, SecureNAS® will ignore all communication from all external USB devices.
IP Web Interface
Administrators can connect over IP on LAN. The intuitive web-based graphical interface of CiphertexOS® offers an easy-to-use tree-structured menu to access advanced services and settings.
Storage Management Software
Amplify your security and productivity with the CiphertexOS®, and the easy-to-use web interface. Designed by the Ciphertex® Development team in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Software-defined storage ensures full-time data protection and flexible options for storing valuable data.
- ZFS RAIDZ provides the option to create parity drives to protect data in the event of disk failures.
- Bit-rot protection runs automatic checksums and consistency checks to repair corrupted individual bits of data
- Efficient ZFS architecture allows system and volume management operations to run on high-performance SSDs so that the NAS’s storage drives are only responsible for storing and protecting data - which translates into faster transfers and better overall system performance.
- CiphertexOS® software also implements multi-layered encryption at the system, hardware, and software levels to provide military- and enterprise-grade protection: 1)Ciphertex Protect™ hardware encryption for volume protection, 2) plug-and-play disk encryption, 3) software-defined volume and user authentication
Your Security Is Key
Encryption Key Management:
- Ciphertex Protect® Encryption Key is a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated hardware encryption module that encrypts network shares at the filesystem (or volume) level.
- To activate the key, it must be paired via the web GUI (administrators have the option to set a passphrase).
- After pairing, encrypted data residing on the Ciphertex SecureNAS® volume cannot be accessed unless the Ciphertex-Protect® key is inserted into the USB Type-C port on the front of the server.
- If the administrator designated a password, it must also be entered to unlock the volume.
- Key Server – CiphertexOS® supports centralized storage and management of the encryption key(s) on any key server supporting KMIP.
Data At Rest Management
Data is protected with the CiphertexOS® implementation of the US government’s Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Data cannot be accessed by unauthorized persons even if the server or its disks are lost or stolen.
Security At Scale
The CiphertexOS® platform provides many options for architecting secure storage environments for companies of any size – from SMBs to enterprises to governmental agencies.
Data Transfer Encryption
Active Directory integration gives administrators more flexibility when using the SecureNAS® in a complex multi-user network environment.
Firewall
Schedule daily or weekly scans, upload virus definitions, and quarantine infected files.
Account Management
Admin Account
CiphertexOS® defines a permanent administrator account to ensure login access to your SecureNAS® at all times – the password can be changed after NAS setup.
Users And Groups
Strong data security involves setting up other admin, super user, user or group accounts and defining permissions for network shares and volume access.
ADS Integration
Strong data security involves setting up other admin, super user, user or group accounts and defining permissions for network shares and volume access.
Storage & Sharing
CiphertexOS® ZFS Implementation
The CiphertexOS® implementation of OpenZFS provides a simplified way of managing storage pools, filesystems, and redundancy.
Raid-Z
ZFS eliminates the user maintenance tasks that traditional RAID implementations require. It is self-healing and highly resistant to data loss as opposed to standard RAID systems.
Data Deduplication
A highly optimized version of block based data deduplication to reduce storage space consumption.
SMB / CIFS
Network sharing of volumes on a per user or group basis supported by both Windows Active Directory and local Linux authentication.
FTP
Share filesystems over the network that can be accessed by designated FTP clients.
NFS
Quick and easy setup of NFS shares.
LFTS Phoenix
Allows users to collaboratively read, write, and share content directly in an HTTP web server client.
ISCSI Target
Reserve sections of your storage pools so that users can mount and access volumes (drives) locally on their client. ISCSI target uses CHAP authentication.
Portable USB
CiphertexOS® allows your SecureNAS® to share the data on a USB drive over your local network.
ZFS Filesystem and Volume Manager
OpenZFS for a safer, more resilient system.
Highly flexible storage pool and volume configuration options including storage pools grow/re-layout for ZFS-based pools, thin provisioning/over provisioning for storage volumes, along with volume resizing. Compression can be enabled for storage volumes which both increases usable capacity and performance by reducing the amount of stored data.
Data Optimization
- Inline Deduplication
- Incline Compression (LZ4, LZJB, ZLE, GZIP 1.9)
- Thick, Thin, and Over-Provisioning
- Lightweight snapshots and clones take up space only after changes are made
High Data Reliability and Availability
Data integrity checks (Bit Rot Protection) are automatically computed for both data blocks and meta-data blocks with the ZFS-based advanced storage pool type.
Networking
TCP/IP
Customize the IP Address and DNS settings using a unique algorithm that detects only the changed parts of files and MTU for each network interface.
DNS
Configure up to three (3) DNS addresses and a DNS search path.
Bonding
Combine network interfaces to enhance performance by aggregating their bandwidths.
Routing
Create routes for individual network interfaces and assign their priority for optimizing routing.
Hosts
Add custom host entries in order to resolve host names without using a DNS.
Backup & Restore
Create backup schedules that can be saved to local drives, LTO tape and industry standard cloud services. These backups are available to restore your SecureNAS® in the event this becomes necessary for any reason.
Snapshot
Create snapshots which can be used to restore your SecureNAS® to a specific, previous point in time.
Client & Peer Backup/Restore
Centrally manage backup and restore functions of computers on the network with your SecureNAS®.
Update
Remotely save system configurations so they can be restored on the same SecureNAS® or on another SecureNAS®. System updates are done remotely through the server’s web interface, without physical interaction.
Status & Notifications
Status Logs
View both system logs and user logs to monitor the health and activities of your SecureNAS®.
Performance Profile
CiphertexOS® dashboard gives users an overview of system performance and resources.
Smart
Monitor drive health and receive advance warning of potential drive failure to take preventative action.
LCD
CiphertexOS® employs the LCD front panel of your SecureNAS® to display system and status information.
Sensors
Access the sensor monitor via the SecureNAS® Dashboard to view the current status of its hardware components. Any component in an out-of-range condition will trigger a notification.
Duplicate
Configure CiphertexOS® to automatically send event notifications to an email address.
Software Technology Partners
Ciphertex® works with network of secure supply chain partners around the globe to provide our customers with reliable solutions
Confidential computing is our core value.
We believe in secure and resilient network infrastructure for the American people. The U.S. government and military source Ciphertex® systems through GSA.
