Insight·31 March 2025

What Happens to Your Data When You Die?

In today’s world, most people think about their will, their home, and their investments, but they often forget one crucial thing: their digital life. Your…

Mark Fermor
Mark FermorDirector & Co-Founder, Firevault
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Why it matters

What this means for organisations holding critical data

In today’s world, most people think about their will, their home, and their investments, but they often forget one crucial thing: their digital life. Your…

In today’s world, most people think about their will, their home, and their investments, but they often forget one crucial thing: their digital life. Your personal files, family memories, financial records, and sensitive documents don’t vanish when you do. In fact, they’re often left vulnerable.

Digital estates are now as important as physical ones. But cloud accounts, emails, and storage platforms come with confusing access policies, expiry clauses, and sometimes zero control for next of kin.

FireVault changes that. It allows you to store your most important digital assets completely offline, visible to no one until explicitly reconnected. With physical access controls and personalised retrieval protocols, your data stays secure long after you’re gone.

Your legacy isn’t just in what you leave behind, it’s in how well you protect it.

About the author

Mark Fermor

Mark Fermor

Director & Co-Founder

Co-founder of Firevault, focused on offline secure storage and protecting individuals and businesses from fraud, fines, loss and damage. Speaker, owner and advisor.

How Firevault would handle this

Physical disconnection removes the path an attacker needs

Offline Secure Storage® holds a clean copy of your data on hardware that is physically disconnected, so an intrusion cannot reach it, encrypt it or delete it.

HardwareYour data sits on dedicated encrypted hardware
DisconnectOffline by default, connected only when you say so
CommandAccess windows and retrieval under your control
LocationHeld in a secure Firevault Bunker

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Insight31 March 20251 min read

What Happens to Your Data When You Die?

In today’s world, most people think about their will, their home, and their investments, but they often forget one crucial thing: their digital life. Your…

What Happens to Your Data When You Die?
Mark Fermor
Published by Mark Fermor, Director & Co-Founder