PII & FILE SECURITY FOR BUSY CTOS

Legal Says Lock Down User Data. Records and Files.

Databunker Pro is the vault for user records and sensitive files — with the access controls and audit trail legal asked for. Map every PII field and sensitive file with Claude, lock them down, and make legal happy.

Plus senior engineers on call to help you implement controls.

Already protecting 20M+ records in production. Self-hosted or cloud.

No deck. No sales pitch. A Databunker engineer maps where your user data and files live, and shows you the access + audit setup legal wants — in 20 minutes.

# Ask Claude or Cursor:
"Find every PII field. Plan the migration to Databunker Pro."

→ 47 PII fields found across 9 services:
   users.email          src/auth/signup.js:42
   orders.shipping      jobs/import.py:118
   logs.payload.phone   worker/process.ts:73
   ...

# Then save each user in Databunker Pro
curl -X POST /v2/UserCreate -H "X-Bunker-Token: $TOKEN" \
    -d '{"profile":{"email":"al@x.com","card":"4532..."}}'
{ "status": "ok", "token": "a21fa1d3-..." }

Self-host with Docker Compose, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.

What Legal's Request Actually Takes

“Lock down user data and files, control who can access them, keep an audit trail.” Simple to ask for. But your records are scattered across a dozen systems, your files sit in buckets nobody reviews, and no one can produce a clean log of who touched what.

Nobody can answer “who can access this user’s data?”

User records are spread across a dozen databases, 10 Cognito pools, and the service the engineer who left built. Granting access control across all of them — let alone proving it to an auditor — is a week of Slack archaeology.

Your sensitive files sit in buckets nobody audits

KYC selfies, ID scans, signed contracts — uploaded to S3 with IAM rules set once and forgotten. Who can download them? When did they last? Legal wants an answer you don’t have.

You can’t prove who accessed what

Access logs are scattered across CloudTrail, app logs, and database audit — where they exist at all. The one thing legal asked for — an authoritative trail of every access — is the hardest to produce.

Plaintext PII records in your SQL tables are a liability

Scattered data multiplies your attack surface. An ORM bug, a dependency CVE, or a forgotten staging dump leaks real customer names, emails, and cards — and lands on every future pen-test report and security questionnaire.

THE DATA & FILE LOCKDOWN SPRINT

Your First Migration in Four Weeks. The Playbook for the Rest.

A time-boxed sprint: Databunker Pro plus 40 hours of senior engineering. We lock down your highest-risk records and files together — then your team owns the proven pattern to finish the rest, with no lock-in.

The software

Databunker Pro

  • ✓ Encrypted PII vault with tokenization
  • ✓ Sensitive files — access-controlled & audited
  • ✓ CRBAC, masking policies, fuzzy search
  • ✓ Record versioning & audit trail
  • ✓ Multi-tenancy, key rotation, BYOK
  • ✓ DPO portal & group management

40 hours of senior engineering

The Sprint

  • Week 1 — Discovery & migration plan. We run Claude or Cursor across your whole codebase, inventory every PII record and sensitive file, and hand you a rollout sequenced by risk — with code samples for your SDK and gateway pattern.
  • Weeks 2–3 — Lock down your highest-risk data together. We start where the most sensitive data lives — your main user table, your Cognito pools, your file buckets. Your engineers integrate; ours review every PR. Daily Slack, weekly architecture call.
  • Week 4 — Cutover & handoff. Those systems go to production. You leave with Databunker running, an audit-ready evidence package, and a proven playbook your team runs solo across every remaining system.
4 weeks
From kickoff to your first systems in production
40 hours
Senior engineers, on call with you
No lock-in
Your team owns the pattern to finish the rest
Book a 20-min architecture review →

We’ll scope the sprint to your stack and tell you whether 40 hours is enough — or if your sprawl needs more.

What Changes Once the Migration Is Done

Once your records and files live behind one vault — with a policy and an audit log on every access — the parts of your job that used to be impossible become routine.

You answer “who can access this?” in seconds

Every record and file has a policy. Granting access, revoking it, or proving it to an auditor is one query — not a week of Slack archaeology.

Every file download is gated and logged

KYC selfies, ID scans, signed contracts — each one access-controlled and audited. You know exactly who pulled which file, and when.

Legal gets the audit trail they asked for

One authoritative log of every access to every record and file. Hand it to legal, an auditor, or a regulator — no reconstruction across five systems required.

Enterprise deals stop stalling on data questions

When a prospect’s security questionnaire asks who can touch user data and files, you answer with one diagram and one audit log. Reviews that stalled deals now close them.

Your User Table, Before and After

The whole migration, in 30 seconds of SQL. Same primary keys, same joins, same indexes — just no PII anywhere except the vault.

Old-Style Solution

Traditional databases store PII directly in tables, making data vulnerable to exposure through logs, backups, and SQL injection attacks—even with RDS encryption enabled.

Example Database Schema:
CREATE TABLE users (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    email VARCHAR(255),           -- Exposed in logs, backups, queries
    first_name VARCHAR(100),      -- Visible to all database users
    last_name VARCHAR(100),       -- Accessible via SQL injection
    phone VARCHAR(20),            -- Stored in application logs
    ssn VARCHAR(11),              -- High-risk data exposure
    created_at TIMESTAMP
);

Problems with storing PII directly:

  • Data exposure in logs, backups, and error messages
  • SQL injection vulnerabilities expose sensitive data
  • Database admin access reveals all personal information
  • Compliance complexity requires extensive additional controls
  • Breach impact exposes all stored PII immediately

Databunker Pro Solution

Databunker Pro is a secure user table replacement and vault that encrypts sensitive data (PII, payment info, KYC) and swaps it in your database with safe random tokens.

Secure Database Schema:
CREATE TABLE users (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    user_token UUID              -- Safe to store anywhere
);

All user-sensitive records are encrypted and securely stored in Databunker’s internal PII vault, featuring fuzzy search, record versioning, encryption key rotation, and multi-tenancy. Fast and secure record lookup is enabled through hash-based search indexes.

Benefits of secure tokenization:

  • Zero PII exposure in application databases, logs, or backups
  • Breach protection - attackers only see meaningless tokens
  • Built-in compliance with privacy regulations
  • Simplified architecture - no complex encryption management
  • Audit-ready with comprehensive access logging

Remove PII from your system — compliance becomes trivial

Book a 20-min architecture review →

Or try the live demo first →

Run Databunker Pro Locally

Self-hosted, open-source-friendly, no signup. Four commands and you have a tokenization API on localhost:3000 🔗.

1. Install with Docker Compose

git clone https://github.com/securitybunker/databunkerpro-setup.git
cd databunkerpro-setup/docker-compose-pgsql
./generate-env-files.sh
docker compose up -d

Then open http://localhost:3000 — the web UI walks you through generating your root token, wrapping key, and Shamir shares.

Read the full quickstart →   Generate admin credentials →

2. Make your first API call

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/v2/UserCreate \
  -H "X-Bunker-Token: $ROOT_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"profile":{"email":"alice@example.com","card":"4532015112830366"}}'

PII goes in. A safe UUID token comes back. Store the token in your application database — never the raw record.

Prefer Kubernetes? Helm chart →
helm repo add databunkerpro https://securitybunker.github.io/databunkerpro-setup
helm repo update
helm install databunkerpro databunkerpro/databunkerpro
kubectl port-forward service/databunkerpro 3000:3000

Helm install guide →

Four Weeks From Now

Three moments in a normal week. Each used to consume your team for days. Now they take minutes — because the data lives in one place, and you can answer for it.

Monday morning

A customer files a DSAR

Your DPO pings you: “European customer wants their data deleted.” You point them at the portal. Five minutes later, done. The week-long fire drill is now a Slack thread.

Wednesday afternoon

A residency clause hits the deal

Enterprise prospect sends a DPA addendum: Indian customer data must stay in Mumbai. Your sales engineer answers on the same call: “Already covered — here’s the architecture diagram.” The deal closes on schedule.

Friday afternoon

The auditor asks where data lives

Your SOC 2 auditor asks for proof of data location. You hand them the architecture diagram and one access log. The conversation ends in twenty minutes — not three weeks of Slack archaeology.

That is what “paid down PII tech debt” actually looks like — not a slide in the board deck, a line in the next quarter’s wins.

Teams That Already Paid Down the Debt

Three CTOs who made the migration. What they got back.

"Databunker Pro saved us 6 months of dev time. The API was a breeze to integrate, and we passed our PCI audit with zero issues."

— Elliot S., Software Director at Cashware

"We ditched our custom encryption for Databunker Pro. It’s faster, more secure, and the team loves the PHP & Python support."

— Sergey M., Cloud Architect at Signature IT

"Open-source roots and military-grade security? Databunker Pro was a no-brainer for our SaaS platform."

— Dmitry K., R&D Manager at Accelario

Why Architects Sign Off on the Migration

Six features that turn "consolidate everything to Databunker" from a risky migration into one you only do once. Each one is a tool your senior engineers can defend in design review.

Different reveal for different roles

Analytics gets tokens. Support sees last-4. Security gets full reveal. All by policy — not by writing if-statements in twelve services.

CRBAC + masking policies

Find users by typo'd name

Hashed search indexes let support find “Johnatan Smyth” even though the vault stores it encrypted. No decryption, no plaintext leak.

Fuzzy search on encrypted data

Hand the auditor any past version

Every create, every update, every export — captured with an integrity hash. Answer “what did this profile look like on March 14?” in one API call.

Record versioning + audit trail

Tenant isolation enforced by the database

PostgreSQL Row-Level Security at the database layer means a query for tenant A literally cannot return tenant B’s rows. The database enforces it. Your team doesn’t have to remember to.

Multi-tenancy with RLS

Rotate keys quarterly. Don’t touch the data.

Master key encrypted with your AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, or HashiCorp Vault. Rotation re-wraps the master key once — your millions of records stay untouched.

BYOK + zero-downtime key rotation

Privacy ops in one screen, not fifteen

Group users by tenant, region, or processing context. Hand the DPO portal to your privacy team to run DSARs and consent — without engineering involvement.

Group management + DPO portal

What This Looks Like to Your Auditor

Same vault, same evidence, same answer to “where does the data live?” — across every framework your enterprise prospects ask about.

DPDPA & CCPA

One vault answers consumer-rights requests in seconds — across India and California — with the same audit trail and the same architecture diagram.

GDPR & PCI DSS

Tokens replace PII and card data in your app. Most systems drop out of audit scope. Both frameworks see one source of truth instead of twelve.

SOC 2 & ISO 27001

Encryption, access control, audit log, key rotation — all evidence your CPA firm can export in one click, not reconstruct across systems.

The Questions Every Architect Asks First

"Will this slow down my app?"

No. Databunker is written in Go for near-native performance. Token lookups add single-digit milliseconds. We handle 20M+ records in production with no performance issues.

"What if Databunker goes down?"

Databunker supports high availability with database replication (PostgreSQL/MySQL). Your tokens remain valid and your app continues to function — PII lookups queue until recovery.

"Can we migrate gradually?"

Yes. Start by tokenizing one service or one data type. Databunker runs alongside your existing database. No big-bang migration required.

"Where is data stored?"

You choose. Self-host on-premises, in your own cloud VPC, or let enterprise clients host their own vault in any region. You control the data residency.

20M+ Records. One Answer to “Where Do They Live?”

Self-hosted, cloud, or hybrid — Databunker fits the architecture you already have, and gives you back a single source of truth for PII.

Book a 20-min architecture review → Or try Docker quickstart

Ready to See What Your Migration Would Look Like?

In 20 minutes, a Databunker engineer maps where your PII lives, shows what tokenization would change, and hands you a migration plan. No deck. No sales pitch.

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