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](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gx8p3rzeo)[2026 Peter Green Chilled Order and logistics data ](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k7yy8n3g5o)[2026 Adidas UK Customer contact details ](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78jkev1el2o) [View All →](/learn/breaches) [![Firevault - offline secure storage, physically disconnected from the internet](/assets/logo-color-DBVl0KCg.png)](/) Products Solutions [Why OSS](/why-oss) More [Help](/help)[Get started](/get-started) [Use cases](/oss-for-use-cases) Offline Secure Storage for Families # The Will Is Only Useful If Your Family Can Find It Book a walkthrough[All use cases](/oss-for-use-cases) 30+ Years estate documents must survive intact Threats addressed Loss of access on death Executor impersonation Estate document tampering Family-office phishing 01 The problem ## Why the current setup leaves this data exposed. Wills, trusts, powers of attorney and succession plans have to outlast every cloud service, app and provider you use today, and usually the person who set them up. Cloud accounts die with their owner, leaving a family locked out at the worst possible moment. Providers merge, change terms or shut down. And when nobody can prove which version of a will is current, grief becomes a dispute that lawyers bill for by the hour. 02 How it plays out ## The scenario, and what physical disconnection changes. One realistic sequence of events, then the controls that break it. Scenario A father dies at 63. His will, trust documents and power of attorney are stored in a cloud account, and the password died with him. His widow and their two adult children spend months in a provider recovery process while an older, superseded version of the will surfaces from a solicitor's file. The legal argument that follows costs the estate more than a decade of storage would have, and none of it was about the money he left, only about the documents nobody could reach. Protection - Estate documents held on physically disconnected, tamper-evident drives built for decades of preservation - Vault Buddy succession access, so the person you nominate reaches the documents through an identity-verified, time-delayed handover - Long-term retention with mirrored RAID 1 integrity and no dependency on a consumer platform staying in business - Held in monitored Firevault Bunkers in the jurisdiction you choose, with clear jurisdiction and a log of every session 03 The outcome ## Of guaranteed document integrity Decades With estate papers held offline in Firevault Offline Secure Storage®, your family knows there is one authoritative set of documents, where it sits, and exactly who can open it when the time comes. No password hunt, no provider recovery queue, and no argument about which version is current. Hardware The data sits on Firevault hardware, not a shared cloud tenancy. Disconnect Offline by default. No standing network path in or out. Command Access opens on your instruction, identity checked and logged. Location Held in a Firevault Bunker. Firevault provisions the location unless you request one in writing. 04 Keep exploring ## More ways organisations use #OSS. Every use case follows the same four physical principles, applied to different data. Related [Family and Household Documents](/oss-for-personal-records) [Identity Documents](/oss-for-identity-documents) [ Families ### Family and Household Documents Passports, deeds, wills and photographs, kept offline. Explore ](/oss-for-personal-records)[ Identity ### Identity Documents Passports and personal identification, offline. Explore ](/oss-for-identity-documents)[ Legacy ### Generational Wealth Hand over family records without a fight. Explore ](/oss-for-long-term-assets) ![Mark Fermor](/assets/mark-fermor-aWtKNSv7.jpg) ![David Bailey](/assets/david-bailey-Dgqj8eaE.jpg) ![Kenny Phipps](/assets/kenny-phipps-CVyooRsR.jpg) Online Now Concierge ## Which offline secure storage solution is right for you? Answer a few quick questions and we will recommend the right solution, whether that is a personal vault or a scalable offline storage system built for your needs. Takes about 2 minutes. No account needed. Find Out Free 2 mins No sign-up