---
title: "Offline Storage for Financial Services | Firevault"
url: https://fire-vault.com/oss-for-financial-services
description: "Protect client portfolios, policyholder records and payment data across asset management, insurance and fintech with physically air-gapped storage. Explore."
lang: en-GB
---

OSS for Industry

# Offline Secure Storage for Financial Services

Asset managers, insurers, payment firms and fintechs hold data attackers prize and regulators protect. Offline Secure Storage (OSS) removes it from internet-reachable infrastructure entirely.

- Client portfolio data theft
- Payment and policyholder fraud
- FCA and DORA operational-resilience risk
- Insider dealing data leaks

View All Industries: https://fire-vault.com/solutions/oss

#OSS at a glance

Image: Financial services systems protected by Offline Secure Storage (https://fire-vault.com/assets/oss-industry-investment-Q-7J_iz7.jpg)

Offline Secure Storage® keeps a clean copy on hardware that is physically disconnected.

Financial Services Reality

Financial services run on data attackers will pay millions to reach: client portfolios, policyholder records, payment credentials and market-sensitive research. The FCA, PRA and DORA do not accept "we patched it" once client 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

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

03

Annual cost of breach-driven fraud in UK

£755M Annual cost of breach-driven fraud in UK Frontier Economics 2025

04

Economic cost of JLR ransomware to UK supply chain

£1.9B Economic cost of JLR ransomware to UK supply chain The Guardian, October 2025

Industry Risks

## Financial data demands the highest protection.

01

### Client Portfolio Data

Holdings, mandates and market-sensitive research are high-value targets.

02

### Regulatory Fines

FCA and PRA impose severe penalties for data protection failures.

03

### Payment Fraud

Payment credentials and policyholder records drive record levels of UK fraud.

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.

Client records, portfolio archives, policyholder files and regulatory data 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

Client records, portfolio archives, and regulatory files are taken off always-on 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 financial services?

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 client 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 Financial Services

- Archived client account records
- Historical compliance and audit files
- Legacy KYC and AML documentation
- Closed policy and claim 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

### Banking & Finance

Offline storage for the banking sector.

Learn more about Banking & Finance
https://fire-vault.com/oss-for-banking

### DORA Compliance

See how OSS maps to financial compliance.

Learn more about DORA Compliance
https://fire-vault.com/solutions/oss/compliance/dora

Questions

## Frequently Asked

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