The Managing Director & Board Executive Guide to Firevault
Updated: July 2025 | Estimated read time: 8 minutes | Published by Firevault
Your Role & Responsibility
As a Managing Director or Board Executive, you’re ultimately accountable for the resilience, performance, and continuity of your business. Cybersecurity is no longer a technical topic—it’s a board-level risk. The decisions you make about data security today will shape investor confidence, customer trust, and operational survival tomorrow.
Your Exposure: Legal, Financial & Personal
Board executives are increasingly being held responsible for cyber-related failures. The legal landscape is shifting towards individual liability and prosecutable negligence for breaches of governance over data protection.
- GDPR & NIS2: Directors can be held personally accountable for failures in safeguarding critical data.
- Post-breach litigation: Shareholders and regulators pursue directors for failure to act.
- Insurance premiums: D&O coverage increasingly excludes cyber negligence.
- Reputation: Your name, not just the company, is in the headlines.
Why Boards Are Embracing Offline Security
Digital protection is no longer enough. Sophisticated ransomware, insider threats, and espionage bypass software defences. The concept of “connected equals vulnerable” has reached boardrooms worldwide.
Offline vaulting provides a simple, strategic answer:
- Take critical data off the grid where it cannot be encrypted, leaked, or spied on.
- Meet fiduciary and legal obligations through real-world breach containment.
- Strengthen your resilience narrative with a tangible board-level control.
Where Firevault Fits
Firevault offers a physical, identity-locked vault—removing your most sensitive documents, IP, board packs, shareholder communications, and legal files from any connected system. These files are unreachable by hackers, invisible to bad actors, and fully owned by you.
This gives board executives:
- Proof of prudence in audits and regulatory reviews.
- Offline fallback in crisis response and ransomware events.
- Unquestionable control over your most critical records.
fire & vault: Platform Overview
Firevault operates on two layers:
- fire: Controlled Offline Access — your access is managed by command, identity checks, and a full log of every interaction.
- vault: Secured Offline Data — data is physically disconnected, immune to digital compromise, and governed by your organisation.
These two elements combine to deliver a strategic, board-level control plane that simplifies governance and neutralises cyber liability.
How the 9 Modules Deliver Business Resilience
- Fracture: Breaks connectivity to critical systems to contain damage.
- Isolate: Removes risk-laden assets from potential breach surfaces.
- Relay: Enables secure, time-bound data sharing with legal or board members.
- Execute: Supports governance-driven access workflows with audit trails.
- Vault: Stores board minutes, investor briefings, and risk models securely offline.
- Archive: Meets 7+ year retention requirements with immutability.
- Unlink: Segregates highly sensitive director communications from general IT infrastructure.
- Lock: Ensures no unauthorised edits or deletions.
- Transfer: Allows traceable, policy-compliant handover of data when required.
Next Steps
- Buy a Vault — take control of board-level data now.
- Organise a Demo — see how Firevault reduces risk and delivers governance-level control.
