Microsoft OneDrive gets Personal Vault and new storage options

Personal Vault is a protected area inside OneDrive that needs extra hallmark to admission

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Microsoft is updating its OneDrive cloud storage app with a new feature to improve security for users' most important and sensitive documents, and the visitor is calculation more storage options for users.

Showtime upwards, Microsoft appear OneDrive Personal Vault, a secure, protected area within your OneDrive storage where you can shop your almost sensitive documents. Personal Vault runs on pinnacle of the excellent security built into OneDrive already, such encryption for files both in storage and in transit, suspicious activity monitoring, ransomware detection and more.

Think of Personal Vault equally a special locked folder inside your OneDrive, which requires a second step of hallmark to admission. This could exist a PIN, face or fingerprint, or possibly a lawmaking sent to y'all by e-mail, SMS or through an authentication app. Files stored in the vault get an extra layer of security, so fifty-fifty if someone gains admission to your OneDrive, they can't become into the Personal Vault too.

Additionally, the vault locks automatically after a prepare period of time. The Personal Vault also doesn't cache files in your browser or store files on your device, so you don't have to worry nigh someone getting access to your data through other means.

Further, users tin scan documents and take photos with the OneDrive app and upload them directly to the vault, bypassing less secure areas of your device, like the photographic camera gyre.

Canada amidst the first to go Personal Vault

Microsoft says Personal Vault will roll out to users in Canada, Australia and New Zealand first, and volition come to everyone else past the end of the year. The feature will be bachelor on the web, desktop app and mobile.

Office 365 subscribers tin store as many files as they want in the Personal Vault, upwardly to their OneDrive storage limit. Gratuitous users, or those with the standalone OneDrive program, will have a limit on the number of files they can add to the vault.

Speaking of storage, Microsoft is also expanding the standalone OneDrive storage plan to include 100GB of storage instead of 50GB at no extra cost to users. In Canada, the standalone plan costs $2.99 per month.

For Office 365 subscribers, Microsoft is likewise making information technology easier to get more than the 1TB max of storage currently available. Now, you can add 200GB storage increments on top of your existing 1TB of cloud storage for $i.99 USD per each increment to a maximum of $9.99 USD for 1TB of additional storage. Microsoft says that you only pay for what you need and tin increase, decrease or cancel your additional storage at whatsoever time. The actress storage options volition arrive in the coming months wherever Office 365 is available.