Data protection that respects Tribal sovereignty.
Tribal Nations are sovereign governments, responsible for their citizens' health, housing, education, courts and records, and often for the enterprises that fund them. KELYN keeps that data protected and recoverable, under the Nation's own authority.
What we protect
Every part of a Nation's government, and its enterprises.
A Nation runs many organizations at once. Each holds data the Nation and its citizens depend on, and each needs to come back quickly after an outage or an attack.
Government
Government operations
Enrollment, finance, records, courts and public safety: the systems that let a Nation govern and serve its citizens.
Health
Health & human services
Tribal health programs, clinics and social services that hold sensitive information about citizens and families.
Community
Housing, education & utilities
Housing authorities, schools, colleges and utilities, each with their own systems and records.
Enterprises
Nation-owned enterprises
Gaming, hospitality, retail, construction and other businesses that fund government services and create jobs.
How we work
The Nation's data, on the Nation's terms.
- The Nation decides
- Where its data lives, who can reach it and how long it's kept are the Nation's decisions. KELYN designs the backup around them, not the other way round.
- Keys only you hold
- Encryption keys stay with the Nation, not with KELYN or any other vendor.
- Your laws and policies
- We work within the Nation's own procurement rules, IT and data policies, and the standards of its regulators and commissions.
- In it for the long term
- The same U.S.-based engineers learn your environment and stay with it, through staff changes and new systems.
Data sovereignty
Your data, your keys, your environment.
Indigenous data sovereignty puts a Nation's authority to control its own data first, as frameworks such as the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance describe. KELYN's approach keeps every copy where the Nation decides, encrypted with keys only the Nation holds.
- In your own environment
- DAR deploys hardened media agents directly in the Nation's own AWS account. Your data never leaves your infrastructure.
- Encrypted with your keys
- Immutable copies with S3 Object Lock, encrypted with keys the Nation controls.
- On your own land, too
- On-site copies and Spectra Logic tape that sits physically offline, under the Nation's own roof.
Laws and standards
Built around the Nation's own rules first.
Requirements differ from Nation to Nation and program to program. KELYN's services support the controls below; compliance remains the Nation's responsibility.
The Nation
Tribal law and policy
The Nation's own codes, data policies and records requirements come first. Backup, retention and access are set to match them.
Health programs
HIPAA
Health programs that handle protected health information need a contingency plan: data backup, disaster recovery and testing.
Public safety
CJIS Security Policy
Tribal law enforcement that accesses criminal justice information follows the FBI's CJIS Security Policy. Commvault lists CJIS among the compliance programs for Commvault Cloud SaaS.
Gaming
NIGC MICS and Tribal internal controls
Gaming operations follow the NIGC Minimum Internal Control Standards and the Tribal gaming commission's own standards.
Enterprises
Keeping the enterprises that fund services running.
For Nations that operate gaming, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act directs net gaming revenues to purposes such as funding Tribal government operations and programs and the general welfare of citizens. When a casino, resort or other enterprise goes down, the effects can reach well beyond the business. KELYN protects those operations too.
Hospitality & gamingWhy KELYN
What a Nation can expect from KELYN.
- Recovery, not just backup
- KELYN runs restores, tests them and plans the order systems come back, so recovery is proven before an incident.
- Identity comes back first
- Active Directory and Entra ID recovered from a known-clean point, so staff can sign in to everything else.
- 100% U.S.-based engineers
- KELYN's engineers operate the service and run recoveries alongside your IT team.
- Commvault Elite MSP Partner
- Commvault backup and cyber recovery, licensed, deployed and managed by KELYN.
Start with a conversation.
Tell us how your Nation's systems and data are organized today, and we'll show you how KELYN would protect them, on your terms.