How can I keep my files secure without Dropbox Vault? Any alternatives?

Hey Impronta, thanks for taking the time to reach out to the Dropbox Community.

I want to start by saying that we really appreciate your feedback on this.

Indeed, starting March 4th, 2025, Dropbox Vault will no longer be available. However, Dropbox is steadfast in its commitment to safeguarding your data.

Our applications and infrastructure are regularly tested for security vulnerabilities, and hardened to enhance security and protect against attacks.

If your files ever do get corrupted by ransomware, there are ways to help with that. You can take a look at this article for more info.

PS. There are also steps that you can take to enhance the security of your account. These steps include:

• Setting up 2-step authentication
• Creating a strong password
• Conducting a security checkup
• Protecting shared files and folders with passwords

Let me know if you have any other questions.

I am so DONE with DropBox even though sadly I paid for a whole year for the vault feature that is being taken away !

Researching alternatives. Maybe pcloud, koofr, icedrive ?

Thank you Dropbox for not caring about your customers !

I agree. This is terrible news and I am now searching for Dropbox alternatives despite loving the platform and having used it for so long I cannot even recall when I started. The Vault functionality was perfect and worked so well for what I needed. I want to be able to have an extra layer of security for certain folders for a variety of reasons. No decent explanation as to why this is happening. Very unhappy. But I am off as soon as I find something that ticks the boxes. It is not Dropbox anymore.

SO MAD !!!

Hi, I am also considering alternatives to Dropbox because Vault is too important to me. I'm sorry because I've been using paid Dropbox since 2009 and, although it still has several problems, I was fine with it.

This was a useful feature. Dropbox is not complete without Vault. Please consider bringing it back.

I’ve attempted on numerous occasion to raise a formal complaint with DB around exactly the things mention in this thread but they simply don’t care and offer no means to do so. I too paid for the year (recently) and feel the removal of the key functionality should warrant a rethink and also compensation - they refuse and only offer a full refund - I have 3Tb of data and moving is not going to be easy but with their inability to listen or care about customers it is something I need to plan and action. 
The worst part from my is the standard PR noise about security - the simply don’t understand they have made this system less secure by removing Vault - they are so blind to reality it is untrue, I would bet good money that this decision to remove functionality has been made by the spreadsheet brigade for financial reason. It by any product team or engineering team and certainly not by any team conducting user research - UCD is definitely not a thing at DB!

I hated the removal of the Vault feature. They should have at least offered a partial refund to users that were using the feature. 

 I agree, it was an incredible piece of mind for me to have some files under an extra level of protection, but also easily accesible from multiple devices and online, wtf were they thinking!  I also paid for the year in December and am now trying to figure out what to do as an alternative!