He added that 'we ask browsers not to cache information' when browsers are used to access Personal Vault. Personal Vault also can verify user identities via the Microsoft Authenticator App, according to Diamond. The second factor to enable authentication might include providing a person's 'fingerprint, face, PIN, or a code sent to you via email or SMS,' Microsoft's announcement clarified. Users of Microsoft's free consumer OneDrive plan with 5GB of storage or its 'standalone' 100GB OneDrive plan are limited to storing 'up to three files in Personal Vault.'Ī two-factor authentication scheme, beyond a password, is required to gain access to Personal Vault.

For instance, Office 365 Personal or Office 365 Home subscribers don't have any Personal Vault file storage limits beyond their general subscription storage limits. Storage limits using Personal Vault are based on consumer OneDrive subscription types. The Personal Vault icon in OneDrive for consumer users (source: Sept. OneDrive users will know that they have access to Personal Vault because it'll show up as a gray vault-like icon in a OneDrive application. OneDrive also has password-protected sharing links, as well as expired sharing links, Diamond added. Microsoft already includes a number of security features in OneDrive, including ransomware detection and recovery, suspicious login monitoring, file encryption at rest and transit, mass file deletion notification, virus scanning on download for known threats and version history for all file types. OneDrive's 'scan and shoot' capability for capturing photos of documents will work with Personal Vault.ĭiamond said he typically gets questions about whether Personal Vault was added because the rest of OneDrive is insecure. OneDrive consumer users might use Personal Vault to store files after scanning IDs, tax documents or budgets, or it can be used to store photos, according to Paul Diamond, a product marketing manager for OneDrive, in the Monday talk.

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