---
title: "Control Blueprints by industry | Firevault"
url: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/industry
description: "Each sector has its own regulator and estate layout. Pick yours to see its Control Blueprint: the zones, the modules, the frameworks and the evidence."
lang: en-GB
---

Control Blueprints by industry

# Your estate is different. The path discipline is not.

Each sector has its own regulator and its own estate layout. Pick yours to see its Blueprint: the zones, the modules, the frameworks and the evidence.

Schedule a Control review: https://fire-vault.com/demo
Why Control: https://fire-vault.com/solutions/control

- Utilities: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/utilities
- Water: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/utilities-water
- Energy: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/energy
- Oil and gas: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/oil-and-gas
- Telecoms: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/telecommunications
- Public: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/public-sector
- Banking: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/banking
- Healthcare: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/healthcare
- Retail: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/retail
- Construction: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/construction

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Choose your industry

## Thirteen estates, thirteen Blueprints.

Each card opens a full Blueprint for the sector: the estate, the modules, the regulatory anchors and the operator workflows.

- Control Blueprint**Utilities**
  Policy-enforced paths across generation, distribution and metering.
  - NCSC CAF
  - NIS2
  _Open the utilities Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/utilities
- Control Blueprint**Water**
  OT segmentation and evidence trails for treatment and distribution.
  - NCSC CAF
  - DWI
  _Open the water Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/utilities-water
- Control Blueprint**Energy**
  Grid, generation and market systems separated by governed paths.
  - NIS2
  - IEC 62443
  _Open the energy Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/energy
- Control Blueprint**Oil and gas**
  Upstream, midstream and downstream held under module policy.
  - IEC 62443
  _Open the oil and gas Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/oil-and-gas
- Control Blueprint**Telecoms**
  Signalling, subscriber and support estates protected at the management plane.
  - TSA
  - NIS2
  _Open the telecoms Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/telecommunications
- Control Blueprint**Colocations and data centres**
  Tenant isolation, cross-connect governance and shared-fabric protection.
  - ISO 27001
  - NIS2
  _Open the colocations and data centres Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/colocations
- Control Blueprint**Defence**
  Programme data and mission systems governed by physical path control.
  - DEFSTAN
  - JSP 440
  _Open the defence Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/defence
- Control Blueprint**Public sector**
  Central and local government estates segmented for resilience and audit.
  - NCSC CAF
  - GovAssure
  _Open the public sector Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/public-sector
- Control Blueprint**Banking**
  Payments, ledgers and admin planes governed by policy rather than trust.
  - DORA
  - FCA
  _Open the banking Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/banking
- Control Blueprint**Healthcare**
  Clinical, imaging and admin estates held apart by enforced paths.
  - DSPT
  - NIS2
  _Open the healthcare Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/healthcare
- Control Blueprint**Retail**
  Point-of-sale, loyalty and supplier estates separated to contain lateral movement.
  - PCI DSS
  _Open the retail Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/retail
- Control Blueprint**Construction**
  Project data, design files and site systems governed across joint ventures.
  - ISO 27001
  _Open the construction Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/construction
- Control Blueprint**Education**
  Research data, safeguarding evidence and admin estates on separate paths.
  - DfE
  - Cyber Essentials
  _Open the education Blueprint_
  https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/education

What every Blueprint shares

## Four disciplines, applied to different estates.

The systems vary by sector. The way paths are governed stays the same.

- ### Segment
  Splits estates into zones so one compromise cannot spread.
- ### Enforce
  Opens each privileged path by policy, time-limits it and closes it automatically.
- ### Verify
  Checks identity at the path rather than trusting network location.
- ### Evidence
  Produces an audit trail for each session that regulators and insurers can review.

13

Regulated sectors mapped to Control Blueprints

Layer 1

Governance enforced in hardware

36 months

Commitment behind every deployment

Explore the Blueprints: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprints
What is Control: https://fire-vault.com/control

By need

## Start from the need instead.

Six needs across systems and access, from critical systems to AI agents. Each leads to the Blueprint built for it.

Critical systems

### Your network diagram shows a boundary. Your cabling may not.

Explore (https://fire-vault.com/control-plan/protect-critical-infrastructure)

Ransomware

### Ransomware does not break in everywhere. It travels.

Explore (https://fire-vault.com/control-plan/stop-kill-chain-ransomware)

Live incidents

### Contain a live incident.

Explore (https://fire-vault.com/control-plan/contain-active-breaches)

Third parties

### Your suppliers need access. They do not need a permanent doorway.

Explore (https://fire-vault.com/control-plan/control-third-party-access)

AI systems

### AI systems act on their own. Their access should still be bounded.

Explore (https://fire-vault.com/control-plan/control-ai-systems)

Data centres

### You own the racks. You rarely own every route into them.

Explore (https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprint/colocations)

Other routes in

## Prefer to start somewhere else?

You can also start from the modules, or the hardware that enforces the paths.

**Control modules**The modules that make up a deployed Control fabric. _See the modules_: https://fire-vault.com/control/nine-modules
**Firebreak® hardware**The hardware range that enforces paths in the field. Manufactured by Firevault. _See the range_: https://fire-vault.com/firebreak
**All Blueprints**Every deployment pattern, CP-01 onwards, with the outcome each one delivers. _Compare the Blueprints_: https://fire-vault.com/control-blueprints

Data protection & storage

## Offline Secure Storage®

OSS protects stored business data, recovery copies and retained evidence through physical disconnection. It is a separate storage service, not a Control module or a network containment function.

Control by Firevault governs selected physical connections. Existing detection tools and authorised operators decide when to act. OSS does not detect incidents, command Control or replace operational safety procedures.

Where protected copies are required, agree the OSS storage scope separately. OSS is not automatically included in this Plan or Blueprint. Recovery copies still need validation and tested restoration procedures; storing evidence does not itself establish compliance.

Explore Offline Secure Storage (https://fire-vault.com/offline-secure-storage)

Questions

## What security and risk teams ask first

Over dedicated management Ethernet, cellular SMS or an authenticated API. The command path never touches the production network, so the command does not travel on the wires it is meant to cut.

Yes. Zones are independent: isolate one circuit, one tenant or one SCADA segment without touching the rest.

Configured action records can support risk and audit reviews. Confirm record coverage, timestamps, integrity checks, retention, SysLog delivery and failure handling for your deployment. Control can help support those obligations; it does not make you compliant on its own.

No. A path can be restored on an approved command, without a site visit, and the change is recorded like any other.

All questions (https://fire-vault.com/learn/faq)

## Decide what stays connected.

We will walk your estate, map it to the sector Blueprint and show you the evidence the board will be asked for.

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