Protect IP and Creative Assets
Once a design leaks, a formula copies or a manuscript escapes, there is no undo. Offline Secure Storage holds the working masters, signed originals and enforcement evidence physically disconnected, with identity-verified retrieval on your authority.
We Think This Is Hard to Ignore
IP theft is estimated to cost the global economy $600 billion a year (IP Commission Report), and 68% of breaches involve a human element (Verizon DBIR 2024). At Firevault, working masters and signed originals live on hardware that physically disconnects after every sync, because the only design that cannot be copied is one that cannot be reached.
$600B
Estimated annual global cost of IP theft
IP Commission Report
£14.7B
Total annual cyber cost to UK businesses
KPMG for DSIT 2025
68%
Of breaches involve a human element
Verizon DBIR 2024
£4.7B
Lost to identity and IP-linked fraud in the UK in a single year
Cifas / UK Finance 2025
Cloud-stored IP is one compromised account away from public.
Always-Reachable Repositories
Source code, CAD files, formulas and creative masters sit in cloud drives and SaaS platforms that are, by definition, reachable from the internet.
Insider and Account Compromise
Employee, contractor and vendor accounts hold access to the crown jewels. Phishing, session hijack and departing staff are the most common route to exfiltration.
No Undo For A Leak
Once designs, formulas or manuscripts are copied, the competitive advantage is gone. Legal recovery is slow, partial and expensive, and prior art can be destroyed forever.
IP is already being taken.
MOVEit: Trade Secrets And Design Files Exfiltrated From Hundreds Of Firms
Cl0p exploited a zero-day in MOVEit Transfer to steal files from more than 2,700 organisations, including engineering documents, source code and commercial contracts.
TechCrunch / Emsisoft, 2023-2024
Marks and Spencer: DragonForce Encrypted Core Retail Systems
M&S halted online clothing and home orders after ransomware encrypted critical systems. Creative, catalogue and merchandising assets went dark for weeks.
BBC News, 2025
Harrods: 430,000 High-Value Customer Records Stolen
Attackers took customer records from one of the world's most exclusive retailers, a reminder that brand-critical data lives in reachable systems by default.
BBC News, September 2025
The Scenario
The design lands with a competitor before the launch.
A product team ships the final CAD pack, the marketing masters and the launch deck to a shared cloud drive. A supplier account is phished. Weeks later a competitor announces a suspiciously similar product, in the same colourway, at a lower price. The launch is pulled, the retailers cancel, and the design premium is gone. With the working masters held in a Firevault Bunker, only identity-verified creators could reach them, and every retrieval would be logged.
"There is no undo button for a leaked design."
Write the master. End the network path. Retrieve on identity.
Your working masters and signed originals are written to dedicated RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker during an identity-verified sync window. Once the write is complete, the drives physically disconnect. No cloud API. No always-on share. No shadow copy on a laptop. When leadership, legal or R&D need the files, a physical connection is re-established on your authority, every session logged for chain-of-custody evidence.
- Working masters and signed originals held on hardware that physically disconnects after every sync, no network path to follow
- Creator-level, identity-locked access, no shared drive URLs, no forwarded share links, no wildcard permissions
- Tamper-evident chain of custody supports patent, trade mark, copyright and trade secret claims
- Signing keys, certificates and encryption material stored separately from the code and content they authenticate
Write Masters and Originals to Offline Storage
Step 1 of 3During an identity-verified sync window, working masters (source, CAD, formulas, edit projects, manuscripts) and signed originals (patents, licences, provenance) are written to dedicated RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. For Storage and Enterprise tiers, automated sync runs via API or SFTP within scheduled windows.
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Choose Your Protection
Which OSS Fits?
300GB
Low Use Vault, Deep Cold Storage
From £74.99/mo
inc. VAT · £0 due today
Deep cold storage for signing keys, priority filings and inventor notebooks that must survive long after the team has moved on.
What 300GB holds
Use Cases for Protecting IP and Creative Assets
- Signing keys, code-signing certificates and root secrets
- Priority patent filings and inventor notebooks
- Copyright deposits and registered design certificates
- Founder-held brand marks and heritage assets
- Long-tail licence agreements and assignment deeds
Specifications
Capacity
300GB
Access
2 windows/week
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.
One Vault, every creator, every rights holder, every stage of the work.
Offline Secure Storage sits at the centre of the intellectual property function, owned by the executives accountable for design, invention and brand. Working masters and signed originals sit on one set of wings; the rights, disclosure and enforcement network and the live commercial workload the team draws on for launches, filings and disputes form the other. Nothing is reachable between sessions, and every touch is logged for legal, auditors and insurers.
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Working Masters
- Source code repositories, build artefacts and signing keys held offline
- CAD, CAM and product engineering files with revision history
- Formulas, recipes, chemistry and manufacturing know-how
- Design files, working RAWs, layered PSDs, edit projects
- Manuscripts, scripts, research notes and unpublished drafts
- AI training data, model weights and prompt libraries
Signed Originals and Filings
- Patent applications, priority documents and inventor notebooks
- Trade mark registrations and brand guideline masters
- Signed licence agreements and assignment deeds
- Copyright deposits and registered design certificates
- NDA and confidentiality registers
- Provenance records for creative works
- Escrowed source code releases
- Chain-of-custody logs for evidence packs
Rights, Disclosure and Enforcement Network
- Patent and trade mark attorneys
- IP litigators and disclosure counsel
- Licensees, co-authors and joint venture partners
- IPO, EPO and international registries
- Insurers and IP indemnity underwriters
Live Commercial Workload
- Product LaunchLNC
- Patent FilingPAT
- Licence NegotiationLIC
- Infringement ClaimINF
- M&A Due DiligenceDDL
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