DORA Compliance with Offline Secure Storage
The Digital Operational Resilience Act requires financial entities to withstand ICT disruptions. Offline Secure Storage (OSS) provides physical resilience.
We Think This Is Hard to Ignore
DORA mandates that financial entities maintain operational resilience independent of third-party ICT providers. The Capita breach demonstrated what happens when critical financial data depends entirely on connected infrastructure. At Firevault, gold copies live on hardware with no network connection, because operational recovery requires data that was never part of the incident.
£14M
ICO fine to Capita, a major financial services processor
ICO, October 2025
£1.9B
Economic cost of JLR ransomware across supply chain
The Guardian, October 2025
3.31M
Confirmed fraud cases in UK in 2024
UK Finance 2025
277 days
Average time to identify and contain a breach
IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024
DORA raises the bar for financial resilience.
ICT Risk Management
Financial entities must identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from ICT disruptions.
Third-Party Risk
DORA mandates oversight of critical ICT third-party providers.
Testing Requirements
Advanced threat-led penetration testing is required for significant entities.
DORA-relevant failures are already happening.
Capita: £14M Fine, Financial Services Processor Breached
Capita processes pension and financial data for major UK institutions. The ICO fined the company £14 million after hackers accessed data of over 6 million people. Under DORA, financial clients would face direct regulatory consequences.
ICO, October 2025
Jaguar Land Rover: Third-Party ICT Failure Cost £1.9B
A ransomware attack paralysed JLR operations for weeks, demonstrating how ICT third-party failures cascade through financial and operational systems. DORA third-party provisions address exactly this risk.
The Guardian, October 2025
LastPass: Credential Vault Breach Exposed Financial Access
The ICO fined LastPass £1.2 million after hackers stole encrypted password vaults. Financial professionals using the service had banking and trading credentials exposed.
ICO, December 2025
Physical resilience for financial services.
Offline Secure Storage (OSS) provides physically disconnected infrastructure that can help support DORA's resilience requirements.
- Critical financial data in physically disconnected storage
- Independent of third-party ICT providers
- Rapid recovery from physically intact gold copies
- Full audit trail for regulatory reporting
Take Critical Financial Data Off ICT Infrastructure
Step 1 of 3Critical financial data is taken off ICT infrastructure and written to physically disconnected RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. Operational data is preserved independently of third-party ICT providers.
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Questions
Frequently Asked
CAF-aligned
Mapped to CAF outcomes, not certified against CAF.
Firevault is not certified against the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework. CAF is a self-assessment framework for essential service operators. The sections below show how our products help you evidence CAF outcomes in your own submission.
Offline Secure Storage and CAF
Using Offline Secure Storage supports CAF Objective B (Protecting against cyber attack) and Objective D (Minimising the impact of incidents). Gold copies live on hardware that is physically disconnected between sessions, giving operators evidence of protective isolation and a recoverable state.
Supports outcomes
Taking Control, deploying Blueprints and CAF
Deploying a Control Blueprint supports CAF Objective A (Managing security risk) and Objective C (Detecting cyber security events). Blueprints document identity-verified access, session logging and segregation between operational and archived data, so the controls can be pointed at CAF outcomes in a self-assessment.
Supports outcomes
Deploying Firebreak and CAF
Deploying Firebreak supports CAF Objective B (Protecting against cyber attack) at the network boundary of operational technology environments. Firebreak enforces physical-layer separation between OT and IT, giving CNI operators evidence of controlled paths for CAF network security outcomes.
Supports outcomes
Firevault maps controls to CAF outcomes to help essential service operators evidence their own self-assessment. Full mapping detail is available on request.