--- title: "OSS for Banking and Finance | Firevault" url: https://fire-vault.com/oss-for-banking description: "Meet strict FCA rules and protect sensitive trading data, client records, and financial IP with physically air-gapped storage for the banking sector. Explore." lang: en-GB --- OSS for Industry # Offline Secure Storage for Banking & Finance Financial services face extraordinary regulatory scrutiny and cyber risk. Offline Secure Storage (OSS) provides physical disconnection for your most sensitive financial data. - Payment-card data theft - SWIFT and payment fraud - DORA operational-resilience risk - Insider trading data leaks View All Industries: https://fire-vault.com/solutions/oss #OSS at a glance Image: Bank trading floor systems protected by Offline Secure Storage (https://fire-vault.com/assets/oss-industry-banking-QO4MxxMw.jpg) Offline Secure Storage® keeps a clean copy on hardware that is physically disconnected. Banking & Finance Reality Banking and finance run on data attackers will pay millions to reach. The FCA, PRA and DORA do not accept "we patched it" once customer money or fiduciary records are exposed. Firevault removes those records from internet-reachable infrastructure entirely, so a credential leak or cloud misconfiguration can no longer end in a regulator-published headline. The evidence 01 ICO fine to Capita for pension data failures £14M ICO fine to Capita for pension data failures ICO, October 2025 02 Economic cost of JLR ransomware to UK supply chain £1.9B Economic cost of JLR ransomware to UK supply chain The Guardian, October 2025 03 Confirmed fraud cases in UK in 2024, highest on record 3.31M Confirmed fraud cases in UK in 2024, highest on record UK Finance 2025 04 Annual cost of breach-driven fraud in UK £755M Annual cost of breach-driven fraud in UK Frontier Economics 2025 Industry Risks ## Financial data demands the highest protection. 01 ### Transaction Data Payment data and transaction records are high-value targets. 02 ### Regulatory Fines FCA and PRA impose severe penalties for data protection failures. 03 ### DORA Compliance The Digital Operational Resilience Act mandates ICT risk management. The reality ## This is already happening in financial services. Every incident below is a matter of public record. Each one involved data that was reachable from a live network at the moment of compromise. 01 ### Capita: £14M Fine After Pension Data of 6 Million People Exposed The ICO issued a combined £14 million fine to Capita for failing to secure personal data including pension records, affecting over 6 million people across multiple financial services clients. ICO, October 2025 02 ### LastPass: ICO Fined £1.2M After 1.6 Million UK Users Exposed The ICO fined the password manager for failures that allowed hackers to steal personal information of 1.6 million UK customers, including those using it for financial credentials. ICO, December 2025 03 ### Co-op: 6.5 Million Members' Financial and Personal Data Stolen Attackers exfiltrated personal data of all 6.5 million Co-op members including financial services customers in a cyber attack the CEO described as devastating. BBC News, 2025 We Think This Is Hard to Ignore > The ICO fined Capita £14 million for failing to protect pension data held on always-on infrastructure. At Firevault, financial records live on hardware that physically disconnects between sessions, because regulatory exposure starts with connected exposure. How OSS Helps ## Remove financial data from every system attackers can reach. Customer records, transaction archives, and regulatory files are taken off always-connected infrastructure and written to dedicated RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. Those drives have no internet connection. No IP address. No API. When authorised personnel need access, a physical connection is created after identity verification. When the session ends, the drives disconnect. - Financial records removed from cloud infrastructure and placed on hardware with no network connection. Attackers cannot reach what is not online - Stolen credentials cannot unlock hardware that is physically disconnected. There is no login to brute-force, no API to exploit - Full audit trail for FCA, PRA, and DORA reporting. Every access session is identity-verified and logged - Supports DORA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR requirements through the strongest possible technical measure, physical disconnection #### Take Financial Records Off Connected Infrastructure Step 1 of 3 Financial records, transaction archives, and regulatory files are taken off always-on banking infrastructure and written to physically disconnected RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. No cloud. No API. No attack surface. What the regulator says FCA Policy Statement on Operational Resilience, 2024 > “Firms must be able to demonstrate that they have identified, classified and protected critical or important functions, including data, against the full range of ICT-related risks.” Featured In Read about Firevault on TechRadar Pro: https://www.techradar.com/pro/uk-startup-put-physical-disconnect-switch-in-its-cloud-storage-offering-to-mitigate-ransomware-attacks-but-will-that-be-enough Read about Firevault on Yahoo Finance: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/firevault-launches-help-businesses-directors-074500961.html Read about Firevault on Channel Insider: https://www.channelinsider.com/security/tools-and-platforms/firevault-security-offline-platform-offering/ Read about Firevault on Security Buyer: https://securitybuyer.com/uk-cybersecurity-startup-launches-firevault/ Read about Firevault on SecurityBrief: https://securitybrief.com.au/story/firevault-unveils-offline-digital-vault-to-combat-rising-cyber-risks Choose your protection ## Which Offline Secure Storage® fits banking & finance? Every tier is the same physical principle at a different scale. Pick the access pattern that matches how your team works, then see the capacity, price and use cases for it. ### 300GB Occasional-Use Vault, Deep Cold Storage £74.99/mo inc. VAT · £0 due today Deep cold storage for archived transaction records and compliance files accessed periodically. One nominated access day each week within a 12-hour window. What 300GB holds ~60,000 high-res photos ~150,000 PDF documents ~1,200 hours of voice recordings ~75 hours of HD video Use Cases for Banking & Finance - Archived transaction and settlement records - Historical compliance and audit files - Legacy KYC and AML documentation - Closed account records - Regulatory correspondence archives Specifications Capacity 300GB Access 1 day/week, 12-hour window Authentication Identity-locked Commitment 36 months Security & Compliance Carefully Selected Bunkers DSIT-Referenced GDPR Art. 32 Cyber Essentials Plus 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. Get started: https://fire-vault.com/luv See Also: Control Network governance for banking See how Control governs data paths across banking infrastructure. https://fire-vault.com/control-for-banking ## Explore More ### DORA Compliance See how OSS maps to financial compliance. Learn more about DORA Compliance https://fire-vault.com/solutions/oss/compliance/dora ### Customer Databases Take customer data offline and out of reach. 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