Abstract: A system and method for a user-managed network security architecture that securely stores individual data files in a uniquely encrypted and dispersed manner, for specific application to wide area enterprise storage networks and online cloud storage networks. This user-managed file-orientated security philosophy combined with a dispersed enterprise network architecture provides for a software-only storage solution that has the potential to increase the overall level of enterprise network security, eliminate the liability related to external security breaches, dramatically reduce the liability related to internal security breaches, reduce the overall hardware costs for online data storage and security, and provide for software-only only platform installation requirements.