New York, NY — December 15, 2025 — ShardSecure®, the leader in agentless file-level encryption and ransomware resilience for unstructured data, today announced the approval of a key U.S. patent that advances the company’s mission to deliver the most secure and resilient data protection platform for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. Patent No. 12,455,796, covering ShardSecure’s innovative method for automatic data recovery using microshard data fragmentation. The invention introduces a self-healing mechanism that continuously monitors storage locations, detects failures or corruption, and instantly restores affected data fragments without human intervention.
This patented capability strengthens ShardSecure’s platform by ensuring high availability, zero-downtime recovery, and uncompromised data security across distributed storage environments.
A Breakthrough in Data Resilience for the Modern Enterprise
The newly issued patent describes how data is broken into tiny, meaningless fragments—microshards—and stored across multiple storage locations with intelligent pointers and built-in redundancy. If any storage system experiences a failure, outage, corruption event, or deletion, ShardSecure automatically reconstructs the missing fragments and restores full data integrity.
This approach offers enterprises several major operational and business benefits:
- Continuous availability for mission-critical workloads
- Stronger multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud resilience
- Built-in self-healing for corrupted or damaged data
- Security and resilience without tradeoffs
- Lower operational costs and reduced risk
Bob Lam, CEO and Co-founder of ShardSecure, commented: “The approval of this patent reinforces our commitment to helping global enterprises mitigate the risks of cloud outages, ransomware, and data corruption. It strengthens our ability to support compliance requirements across GDPR and state privacy laws, while giving organizations a powerful way to maintain data integrity and availability across borders.”
Accelerating Market Momentum Through Strategic Alliances
ShardSecure’s innovation is gaining traction in a rapidly growing market. In 2025, the company announced a strategic alliance with Entrust, pairing ShardSecure’s agentless file-level encryption and microsharding technology with Entrust’s cryptographic security platform. Together, the companies enable customers to secure unstructured data across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments.
Industry analysts are taking notice. According to Gartner’s November 2025 report, “What Data Governance Leaders Must Know About Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs),” sharding—also known as shredding—is emerging as a promising privacy-enhancing technology that strengthens data protection in distributed cloud environments by fragmenting and dispersing encrypted data.
Gartner notes that while sharding is still early in market adoption, it offers strong potential for organizations seeking to improve resilience and reduce the risk of reidentification or unauthorized access by infrastructure providers. ShardSecure’s newly issued patent further cements its leadership in this fast-growing space.
About ShardSecure®
ShardSecure is a pioneer in data security and resilience technology designed for hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments. Through its proprietary Microshard fragmentation, mixing, and dispersal technology, ShardSecure protects sensitive data from cyber threats, ransomware, outages, and compliance violations across global infrastructures.
Headquartered in New York, ShardSecure partners with organizations worldwide that require resilient, agentless data-security solutions that strengthen operational continuity and trust in today’s complex digital landscape.
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Jennifer Deserio
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