The CFO & Finance Director Guide to Firevault
Updated: July 2025 | Estimated read time: 8 minutes | Published by Firevault
Role Overview
As CFO or Finance Director, you are responsible for more than financial performance—you manage risk exposure, audit readiness, regulatory compliance, and shareholder confidence. You must evaluate investments not just by ROI but by their ability to protect the bottom line. Cybersecurity and operational resilience are now financial imperatives, not just IT concerns.
Modern Financial Challenges
Finance leaders face a triple burden: fiscal accountability, data governance, and threat resilience. Key concerns include:
- Escalating ransomware claims that disrupt operations and spike insurance premiums.
- Shareholder and regulator scrutiny around breach prevention and risk disclosures.
- Budget inflation from overlapping tech and recovery costs.
- System downtime that halts invoicing, payments, payroll, and customer access.
Finance functions—ERP, payroll, invoicing, treasury—are prime targets for attackers. The average cost of a financial breach in 2024 was £3.6 million, excluding fines and loss of investor trust.
Cost, Responsibility & Reputational Exposure
CFOs are increasingly named in litigation, fined for disclosure failures, and scrutinised for operational negligence. The risk extends to:
- Regulatory fines under GDPR, SOX, or sector-specific legislation.
- Market penalties through stock price impact and investor confidence loss.
- Personal accountability through D&O investigations or clawbacks.
You must now ask: “If we were breached today, could we prove that critical data and backups were fully protected—physically and legally?”
Why Firevault is a Strategic Fit
Firevault is not another subscription or SaaS line item. It is a capital-efficient investment in unbreachable assurance. By taking shareholder records, audit files, financial snapshots, contract libraries, and payment data offline, Firevault reduces the blast radius of any breach.
It supports your fiduciary responsibility by delivering a provable layer of asset protection that cannot be spoofed, encrypted, or stolen. That’s not just IT security—it’s financial resilience and risk reduction.
fire & vault: The Firevault Platform
Firevault is a dual-plane security platform designed to align with business-critical finance workflows:
- fire: Controlled Offline Access — enforces access policies, logs actions, and ensures governance for sensitive file handling.
- vault: Secured Offline Data — protects sensitive files in a tamper-proof, inaccessible environment until authorised offline access is requested.
Firevault ensures that strategic financial documents remain recoverable, intact, and compliant—even if your broader systems are breached.
How the 9 Modules Support Financial Resilience
Each module in Firevault supports finance leadership in protecting value, meeting compliance, and minimising operational interruption:
- Fracture: Break attack paths to finance systems.
- Isolate: Segment financial records from networked systems.
- Relay: Approve access via CFO sign-off with full audit trail.
- Execute: Time-bound approvals for auditors or external reporting.
- Vault: Physically house cap tables, shareholder data, insurance contracts.
- Archive: Maintain a compliant, immutable audit record offline.
- Unlink: Disconnect legacy transactions, acquisitions, or records no longer in use.
- Lock: Protect sensitive board materials or IPO documents.
- Transfer: Govern how data leaves the business through approved offline paths only.
Next Steps
- Buy a Vault — select a solution that aligns with your finance and governance needs.
- Organise a Demo — see how Firevault supports financial controls, audits, and legal protection.
