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Offline Secure Storage for Banking & Finance

Financial services face extraordinary regulatory scrutiny and cyber risk. Offline Secure Storage (OSS) provides physical disconnection for your most sensitive financial data.

We Think This Is Hard to Ignore

The ICO fined Capita £14 million for failing to protect pension data held on always-on infrastructure. At Firevault, financial records live on hardware that physically disconnects between sessions, because regulatory exposure starts with connected exposure.

£14M

ICO fine to Capita for pension data failures

ICO, October 2025

£1.9B

Economic cost of JLR ransomware to UK supply chain

The Guardian, October 2025

3.31M

Confirmed fraud cases in UK in 2024, highest on record

UK Finance 2025

£755M

Annual cost of breach-driven fraud in UK

Frontier Economics 2025

Banking & Finance Reality

Banking and finance run on data attackers will pay millions to reach. The FCA, PRA and DORA do not accept "we patched it" once customer money or fiduciary records are exposed. Firevault removes those records from internet-reachable infrastructure entirely, so a credential leak or cloud misconfiguration can no longer end in a regulator-published headline.

Industry Risks

Financial data demands the highest protection.

Transaction Data

Payment data and transaction records are high-value targets.

Regulatory Fines

FCA and PRA impose severe penalties for data protection failures.

DORA Compliance

The Digital Operational Resilience Act mandates ICT risk management.

The Reality

This is already happening in financial services.

Capita: £14M Fine After Pension Data of 6 Million People Exposed

The ICO issued a combined £14 million fine to Capita for failing to secure personal data including pension records, affecting over 6 million people across multiple financial services clients.

ICO, October 2025

LastPass: ICO Fined £1.2M After 1.6 Million UK Users Exposed

The ICO fined the password manager for failures that allowed hackers to steal personal information of 1.6 million UK customers, including those using it for financial credentials.

ICO, December 2025

Co-op: 6.5 Million Members' Financial and Personal Data Stolen

Attackers exfiltrated personal data of all 6.5 million Co-op members including financial services customers in a cyber attack the CEO described as devastating.

BBC News, 2025

How Firevault Stops This

Remove financial data from every system attackers can reach.

Customer records, transaction archives, and regulatory files are taken off always-connected infrastructure and written to dedicated RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. Those drives have no internet connection. No IP address. No API. When authorised personnel need access, a physical connection is created after identity verification. When the session ends, the drives disconnect.

  • Financial records removed from cloud infrastructure and placed on hardware with no network connection. Attackers cannot reach what is not online
  • Stolen credentials cannot unlock hardware that is physically disconnected. There is no login to brute-force, no API to exploit
  • Full audit trail for FCA, PRA, and DORA reporting. Every access session is identity-verified and logged
  • Supports DORA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR requirements through the strongest possible technical measure, physical disconnection

Take Financial Records Off Connected Infrastructure

Step 1 of 3

Financial records, transaction archives, and regulatory files are taken off always-on banking infrastructure and written to physically disconnected RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. No cloud. No API. No attack surface.

“Firms must be able to demonstrate that they have identified, classified and protected critical or important functions, including data, against the full range of ICT-related risks.”
Source: FCA Policy Statement on Operational Resilience, 2024

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Choose Your Protection

Which OSS Fits?

300GB

Low Use Vault, Deep Cold Storage

From £74.99/mo

inc. VAT · £0 due today

Deep cold storage for archived transaction records and compliance files accessed periodically.

What 300GB holds

~60,000 high-res photos
~150,000 PDF documents
~1,200 hours of voice recordings
~75 hours of HD video

Use Cases for Banking & Finance

  • Archived transaction and settlement records
  • Historical compliance and audit files
  • Legacy KYC and AML documentation
  • Closed account records
  • Regulatory correspondence archives

Specifications

Capacity

300GB

Access

2 windows/week

Authentication

Identity-locked

Commitment

36 months

Security & Compliance

NATO-Approved FacilityDSIT-ReferencedGDPR Art. 32Cyber Essentials Plus

How to Get Started

Step 1

Discovery Call

Understand what you need to protect and how you operate.

Step 2

Vault Configuration

Select your tier, capacity, and access model.

Step 3

Identity Verification

Complete KYC/AML and set up multi-factor authentication.

Step 4

Go Live

Data ingestion, access policy activation, and ongoing support.

OSS Butterfly for Financial Services

One Vault, every party, every stage of the regulated case.

Offline Secure Storage sits at the centre of the regulated firm, owned by the executive accountable for conduct, financial crime and operational resilience. Onboarding and KYC feed the live customer and account file on one set of wings; the counterparty and regulator network and the live cases the firm is running in parallel form the other. Nothing is reachable between sessions, and every touch is logged for FCA, PRA, DORA and skilled-person review.

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Upper Left Wing

Onboarding and KYC

  • CDD and EDD packs captured before the relationship opens
  • Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening recorded at intake
  • Source-of-wealth and source-of-funds evidence retained on file
  • Mandates, signatories and authority levels lodged at account opening
  • Beneficial ownership and corporate-structure evidence captured for entities
  • Re-KYC triggers and periodic review schedules tied to the customer record
Upper Right Wing

Customer and Account File

  • Account, mandate and signatory records
  • Payment instructions and SWIFT logs
  • Lending, mortgage and credit files
  • Card, tokenisation and PCI data
  • Statements, confirmations and contract notes
  • Suspicious Activity Reports and SAR drafts
  • Complaints, redress and FOS files
  • Conduct-risk and vulnerable-customer notes
Lower Left Wing

Counterparty and Regulator Network

  • Correspondent banks and nostro counterparties
  • Custodians, clearers and CSDs
  • External auditors and Section 166 skilled persons
  • FCA, PRA, NCA and HMRC
  • External legal, tax and forensic counsel
Lower Right Wing

Live Cases

  • LendingLND
  • PaymentsPAY
  • ClaimsCLM
  • Fraud InvestigationFRD
  • Complaints and RedressCMP
Archived DataClosed accounts, completed reporting periods and statutory-retention records, held offline under the firm's sole control.

Questions

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