SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BREACH-PROOF, RESILIENT, COMPLIANT DATA IN A MULTI-VENDOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENT AND AUTOMATICALLY SELF HEALS IN THE EVENT OF A RANSOMWARE ATTACK

A cloud-based system and method for securely storing data formed into cloud technology-specific data objects (hereinafter, "buckets") by an S3 gateway, comprising obtaining a source data bucket from the S3 gateway; splitting the data bucket into at least three fragments; encrypting the fragments using an encryption key associated with the fragments and distributing the encrypted fragments among at least three cloud storage providers, and creating a pointer file containing information for retrieving the encrypted fragments. When a system user requests access to the data, the system ensures the request is legitimate, then uses the information stored in the pointer file to retrieve the stored encrypted bucket fragments from the plurality of clouds, decrypts the fragments and reconstructs the data buckets, and provides data access to the S3 gateway.