Every user must be authenticated to gain access to the vault, and every user has administrator-defined privileges once inside. HR stores its salary information on Excel files, which reside in a safe in the vault. The PrivateArk administrator determines that all 10 members can open the safe and look at the Excel files, but only the HR director can actually change or delete them. Perhaps the neatest feature of PrivateArk is Visual Security. This provides an immediate visual indication to both users and administrators that the safe has been accessed, objects have been updated, or new objects have been added.
Administrators can also see which user most recently accessed a safe.
With no effort, I can see which safes were opened and who was there and when. This visual audit trail increases user awareness of security, and may also deter employees from vandalizing or stealing data. The PrivateArk server monitors applications that access the object while it is in a workspace. When a user closes a safe in which the object belongs, PrivateArk returns the object from the workspace back to the safe, then clears the workspace itself. Additionally, all the transactions between the PrivateArk client and server are encrypted, and the workspace itself is not accessible from the network.