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Qualifications. That Cannot Quietly Disappear.

Universities close, registrars retire records and cloud certificate lockers go dark. A Firevault Education Store keeps your degree certificates, transcripts and professional qualifications physically protected and retrievable for life.

Why OSS

Education Store

Your most sensitive data deserves protection that goes beyond software. Firevault provides the only storage that is physically unreachable by design.

327

Cyber incidents reported by UK education sector in 2024

NCSC Annual Review, 2025

£14M

ICO fine to Capita, processes education data

ICO, October 2025

6.5M

Personal records stolen in single Co-op breach

BBC News, 2025

5+

Average professional qualifications held by a senior professional

Firevault customer data

Why Cloud Education Records Fail

Your qualifications outlive every portal you stored them in.

Portal Dependency

Digital credential platforms come and go. When the issuer changes provider, your certificate becomes a dead link.

Format And Provenance Loss

PDF certificates without verifiable provenance are increasingly questioned by employers and regulators. Originals matter.

Institutional Drift

Universities merge, departments close and registrars lose records. The further back the qualification, the harder it is to prove.

The Reality

Education records are under attack.

NCSC: 327 Cyber Incidents Reported by UK Education Sector

The National Cyber Security Centre reported a record number of cyber incidents affecting UK education institutions, with ransomware and data exfiltration targeting student and qualification records.

NCSC Annual Review, 2025

Capita: £14M Fine, Education Data Processor Breached

Capita processes data for hundreds of schools and education bodies. The ICO fined the company £14 million after hackers accessed personal data including education records.

ICO, October 2025

Co-op: 6.5 Million Members' Data Stolen

The Co-op breach demonstrated how organisations holding data across sectors, including education partnerships, are vulnerable to mass data exfiltration affecting qualification and membership records.

BBC News, 2025

The Scenario

A career put on hold by a missing certificate.

A senior consultant applies for a regulated role overseas. The university that issued her primary degree restructured a decade ago and her digital portal account is dormant. The replacement service has no record of her transcript. Her offer is delayed nine months. With a Firevault Education Store, the original certified scan and provenance trail would have been retrievable in minutes.

"Your career should not hang on whether a portal still exists."

The OSS Education Store

Hold the originals offline. Prove them on demand.

Your Education Store holds degree certificates, transcripts, professional body records and continuing-education proofs inside a physically disconnected vault. Retrievable on demand, verifiable on request, never sat in someone else's portal.

  • Offline Secure Storage for original qualifications and transcripts, offline by default and reachable per session
  • Tamper-evident custody for professional body records and CPD
  • Authorised retrieval for verification, applications and tribunals
  • Identity-locked access, your record, your release

Take Qualifications Off Institution Portals

Step 1 of 3

Degree certificates, transcripts, and professional qualifications are taken off institution portals and cloud drives and written to physically disconnected RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. No portal dependency. No dead links.

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Choose Your Protection

Which OSS Fits?

2TB – 8TB

High Frequency 24/7 Access

From £360/mo

inc. VAT · £0 due today

Identity-locked retrieval for the qualifications that define your career. Stored offline, verifiable on demand.

What 2TB – 8TB holds

~400,000 – 1.6M high-res photos
~1M – 4M PDF documents
~8,000 – 32,000 hours of voice recordings
~500 – 2,000 hours of HD video

Use Cases for Running an OSS Education Store

  • Degree certificates and university transcripts
  • Professional body memberships and practising certificates
  • Continuing professional development records
  • Regulated qualification evidence packs
  • International credential equivalence records

Specifications

Capacity

2TB – 8TB

Access

24/7 on-demand

Authentication

Identity-locked

Commitment

36 months

Security & Compliance

NATO-Approved FacilityDSIT-ReferencedGDPR Art. 32Hardware Encrypted

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.

Commercial Advantage

Win Business, Earn Trust, and Build Reputation with Butterfly

Butterfly is an operational model that helps organisations structure sensitive data to close deals faster, strengthen client relationships, and demonstrate the governance maturity that wins enterprise contracts.

Built on the VPPP framework (Vault, Policy, Permissions, Purpose), Butterfly maps your sensitive data and assigns dedicated Vaults by role, relationship, and purpose, turning data stewardship into a competitive advantage.

Deal Readiness

Governed materials ready to share with confidence

Client Trust

Demonstrate stewardship that earns loyalty

Board Confidence

Clear governance that inspires stakeholders

Enterprise Scale

Structure data governance across your organisation

Butterfly deployment model

Who Uses Butterfly?

  • Sales Teams

    Secure client proposals, pricing, and commercial intelligence

  • Service Providers

    Exchange sensitive documents with clients through governed Vaults

  • Businesses

    Protect strategic plans, IP, and competitive intelligence

  • Family Offices

    Structure data governance across principals, staff, and advisors

Questions

Frequently Asked

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