Offline Secure Storage for Government
Government and public bodies handle some of the most sensitive data in existence. Offline Secure Storage (OSS) provides physical disconnection for classified and citizen data.
- Citizen data breaches
- Nation-state APT activity
- Council ransomware
- GovAssure control gaps
Offline Secure Storage® keeps a clean copy on hardware that is physically disconnected.
UK Government Reality
Sovereign departments, councils and arm's-length bodies are obliged to protect citizen data to a standard that pure-cloud architecture cannot evidence on its own. The Government Cyber Security Strategy explicitly calls out the need for resilient, recoverable copies that are isolated from the live estate. Firevault provides UK-sovereign, physically disconnected storage, sized for everything from a single departmental archive to a national-scale records retention programme.
- Economic cost of JLR ransomware across UK supply chain
- £1.9BEconomic cost of JLR ransomware across UK supply chainThe Guardian, October 2025
- UK voter records exposed in Electoral Commission breach
- 40MUK voter records exposed in Electoral Commission breachElectoral Commission, 2024
- ICO fine to Capita, a major government contractor
- £14MICO fine to Capita, a major government contractorICO, October 2025
- Cyber incidents reported by UK public sector in 2024
- 327Cyber incidents reported by UK public sector in 2024NCSC Annual Review, 2025
Public sector data demands sovereign protection.
National Security
Government data is a prime target for nation-state threat actors.
Citizen Records
Millions of citizen records require the highest standard of protection.
Regulatory Obligations
NIS2, Cyber Essentials Plus, and GovAssure mandate robust technical measures.
This is already happening in government.
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.
Electoral Commission: 40 Million UK Voter Records Exposed
The Electoral Commission disclosed that hostile actors accessed the personal data of approximately 40 million registered UK voters over a 14-month period before detection.
Electoral Commission, 2024
Capita: £14M Fine, Major Government Contractor Breached
Capita, which processes data for hundreds of government bodies, was fined £14 million by the ICO after hackers accessed personal data of over 6 million people.
ICO, October 2025
NHS Synnovis: Ransomware Paralysed London Hospitals for Months
A ransomware attack on pathology provider Synnovis disrupted blood tests and operations across major London hospitals. Stolen patient data was published online by the attackers.
BBC News, June 2024
We Think This Is Hard to Ignore
The MOD disclosed 500,000 service personnel records exposed through a compromised payroll provider in 2024. At Firevault, sovereign data lives on hardware with no network connection, because national security cannot depend on third-party infrastructure.
Remove sovereign data from every system attackers can reach.
Classified records, citizen data, and critical government files are taken off 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 SC/DV-cleared personnel need access, a physical connection is created after identity verification. When the session ends, the drives disconnect.
- Sovereign data removed from connected infrastructure and placed on hardware with no network connection. Nation-state attackers cannot reach what is not online
- SC/DV-cleared personnel and facility access controls. Compromised contractor credentials cannot unlock physically disconnected hardware
- Full audit trail for NIS2, Cyber Essentials Plus, and GovAssure compliance. Every access session is identity-verified and logged
- Enterprise-scale capacity for departmental and national programmes with clear jurisdictional boundaries
Take Sovereign Data Off Departmental Networks
Step 1 of 3Classified records, citizen data, and critical government files are taken off departmental networks and written to physically disconnected RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. No cloud dependency. No API. No attack surface.
What the regulator says
“Critical functions must have backups that are isolated and cannot be modified or encrypted by an attacker who has compromised the production environment.”
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Choose your protection
Which Offline Secure Storage® fits government?
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
Low Use Vault, Deep Cold Storage
£74.99/mo
inc. VAT · £0 due today
Deep cold storage for classified records and sensitive documents. One nominated access day each week within a 12-hour window.
What 300GB holds
Use Cases for Government
- Classified policy documents
- Ministerial correspondence archives
- FOI preparation files
- Historic investigation records
- Personnel security vetting files
Specifications
Capacity
300GB
Access
1 day/week, 12-hour window
Authentication
Identity-locked
Commitment
36 months
Security & Compliance
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.
Questions