The maximum fine for GDPR / NIS2 breaches.
If you own risk, audit, or compliance, you’re accountable for proving that data is protected and controls are enforced. Regulators don’t just fine companies — they question processes and assign liability.
Regulators don’t ask how many layers of tools you bought — they ask to see proof.
GDPR, NIS2, SEC, and FCA rules demand immutable evidence of due care.
Failure to retain or protect records means personal accountability for compliance leaders.
What Can Go Wrong:
Fines: GDPR/NIS2 penalties up to €20M or 4% global turnover.
Process Gaps: Audit failures from missing or altered records.
Disclosure Failures: Breaches of FCA, SEC, and exchange obligations.
Personal Liability: Career impact from negligence findings.
Every regulated record is both a business risk and a compliance liability.
If left online, it can be stolen, altered, or fail audit tests — and the responsibility falls on Risk and compliance leaders.
Audit Trails Corrupted — logs, evidence, and monitoring files tampered with or erased.
Retention Failures — records not preserved to statutory or sector limits (GDPR, NIS2, SEC, FCA).
Disclosure Breaches — confidential shareholder, financial, or compliance filings exposed.
Insider Exploitation — ex-employees or contractors retaining access to regulated archives=
Regulated records are disconnected from live networks, preventing tampering or silent alteration.
Built to prove due care — reducing negligence exposure, ICO penalties, and director liability.
Meets GDPR, NIS2, FCA/SEC, UK Corporate Governance Code, and ISO 27001 expectations.
Records preserved offline for audits, litigation, and statutory retention periods.
Each Firevault™ module is a compliance safeguard designed to prove due care and prevent regulatory failure. Together, they enforce offline resilience, eliminate exposure, and provide the immutable records regulators demand.
Prevents cross-domain data exposure by sealing networks into isolated zones. Compliance Value: Demonstrates GDPR/NIS2 technical segregation controls. Risk Avoided: Prevents systemic breaches that trigger multi-regulator investigations.
Physically disconnects compromised systems, cutting off exposure instantly. Compliance Value: Evidences rapid incident response (GDPR 72hr rule). Risk Avoided: Avoids extended breaches that increase ICO/FCA fines.
Keeps shareholder, financial, and compliance records permanently offline. Compliance Value: Aligns with GDPR Art. 32 & SOX retention requirements. Risk Avoided: Prevents ICO fines, SEC penalties, and reputational collapse.
Provides long-term, offline storage of compliance evidence and filings. Compliance Value: Meets statutory retention obligations (7–12 years). Risk Avoided: Avoids €20m / 4% turnover fines for retention failures.
Removes standing credentials and enforces offline-only access. Compliance Value: Supports NIST AC-3, Zero Trust, and insider risk controls. Risk Avoided: Stops negligent access breaches that create liability.
Moves regulated files between nodes without live network exposure. Compliance Value: Demonstrates safe transfer of sensitive records (audit-ready). Risk Avoided: Protects IP and financial data during cross-border handling.
For compliance managers, this reframes Firevault from “just security” into a platform that turns regulatory obligations into demonstrable controls — reducing audit stress, evidencing due care, and protecting both the company and the individual from liability.
Each maps to NIST, MITRE, and governance standards — scoring 4 or 5 because they directly stop systemic breaches, fines, and fiduciary failures.
For boards the outcome is simple: fewer fines, stronger compliance, defensible governance.
| Module | Why it matters (Compliance View) | Platform Layer | Technical Driver | Plain Language | Technical Detail | Frameworks | Risk Marker | Financial Impact | User Case | Audience Fit | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fracture | Proves data segregation to regulators; prevents cross-domain spillovers that trigger multi-regulator scrutiny. | Fire | Controlled Connectivity | Physically separates regulated data from general IT | Hardware segmentation; sealed zones block lateral movement and mixed-processing breaches. | NIST PR.AC-5 · MITRE T1078 · Zero Trust | Systemic breach / co-mingling | £17.5m or 4% turnover (GDPR cap) | Ring-fence PII/PHI/PCI workloads from collaboration/OT | Compliance · GRC · SecArch | 5 |
| Isolate | Demonstrates rapid containment for incident reporting windows (72h GDPR); limits data exposure. | Fire | Controlled Connectivity | Instantly disconnects suspect systems | Out-of-band, non-IP command at hardware layer; zero packets, zero bleed. | NIST RS.CO-2 · MITRE T1562 | Reportable incident exposure | £m+ outage & breach mitigation | Cut affected segment before exfil/processing breach | Compliance · DPO · IR Lead | 5 |
| Relay | Prevents unapproved transfers; no direct endpoint connections → reduces unlawful disclosure risk. | Fire | Controlled Connectivity | Secure movement without live trust | Offline mediation; time-boxed exchange; no standing paths or metadata trails. | NIST PR.PT-4 · Zero Trust | Data exfil / cross-border leak | £/€ regulator fines + legal costs | Partner/agency sharing under strict transfer controls | Compliance · Legal · DLP | 4 |
| Execute | Board/Regulator defensibility: enforceable kill-switch to limit scope in audit and post-mortem. | Fire | Controlled Connectivity | Physical segment kill-switch | Identity-bound command cuts power/network at hardware; deterministic isolation. | NIST RS.AN-1 · MITRE T1489 | Extent-of-breach control | £m+ avoided via faster closure | Emergency shutdown of misprocessing/compromised zone | Compliance · CISO · IR | 4 |
| Vault | Air-gapped “compliance by design”: keeps regulated records off-network and out of ransomware scope. | Vault | Secured Offline Data | Offline storage for regulated data | Air-gapped, encrypted; access only on authenticated session with audit trail. | NIST PR.DS-1 · CIA (Conf.) | Data theft / unlawful access | £17.5m or 4% turnover (GDPR cap) | Store DSAR bundles, filings, privileged docs offline | Compliance · DPO · Legal | 5 |
| Archive | Immutable retention that satisfies auditors; proves records weren’t altered or prematurely deleted. | Vault | Secured Offline Data | Long-term, tamper-evident storage | Physically disconnected WORM-style policy; time-bound retention with verification. | ISO A.12.3 · NIST PR.IP-4 | Retention/Destruction failure | Up to €20M / 4% turnover | 7–10+ year statutory archives; litigation hold | Compliance · Records · Audit | 4 |
| Unlink | Removes all residual identities/tokens after exit/role change; reduces insider/regulatory exposure. | Vault | Secured Data Access | Hard revoke access & traces | Severs accounts, tokens, paths; no lingering access to regulated stores. | NIST PR.AC-6 · MITRE T1070 | Insider/privilege misuse | £15.4m/yr insider avg | JML enforcement on sensitive repositories | Compliance · IAM · HR IT | 4 |
| Lock | Eliminates standing credentials; enforces hardware-bound MFA—critical for regulated datasets. | Vault | Secured Data Access | Physical gate on access | No cloud creds/tokens; identity-bound hardware + MFA, session-scoped. | NIST PR.AC-3 · CIA (C/I) | Credential theft / misuse | £150/record × volume (breach) | Access control for PII/PHI/PCI evidence and filings | DPO · IAM · Compliance | 5 |
| Transfer | Offline movement of regulated data; no live network exposure → strong cross-border control. | Vault | Secured Offline Data | Air-gapped file transfer | Vault-to-Vault via Relay; time-boxed, auditable movement only. | NIST PR.DS-2 · MITRE T1041 | Data-in-motion leakage | £/€ fines + IP loss | Move DSARs/evidence between sites or counsel | Compliance · Legal · GRC | 4 |
Firevault is trusted by compliance leaders, legal teams, and data protection officers who must prove governance, reduce regulatory exposure, and eliminate personal liability when things go wrong.
Air-gap restore media to ensure clean recoveries under pressure.
Keep crown-jewel IP offline; prevent silent exfil & tamper.
Immutable, tamper-evident statutory retention by design.
Preserve trails & chain-of-custody outside attacker reach.
Store DPIAs, DSARs & RoPAs offline; evidence GDPR Art.25/32.