Qualifications. That Cannot Quietly Disappear.
Universities close, registrars retire records and cloud certificate lockers go dark. A Firevault Education Store keeps your degree certificates, transcripts and professional qualifications physically protected and retrievable for life.
- Cyber incidents reported by UK education sector in 2024
- 327Cyber incidents reported by UK education sector in 2024NCSC Annual Review, 2025
- ICO fine to Capita, processes education data
- £14MICO fine to Capita, processes education dataICO, October 2025
- Personal records stolen in single Co-op breach
- 6.5MPersonal records stolen in single Co-op breachBBC News, 2025
- Average professional qualifications held by a senior professional
- 5+Average professional qualifications held by a senior professionalFirevault customer data
Your qualifications outlive every portal you stored them in.
Portal Dependency
Digital credential platforms come and go. When the issuer changes provider, your certificate becomes a dead link.
Format And Provenance Loss
PDF certificates without verifiable provenance are increasingly questioned by employers and regulators. Originals matter.
Institutional Drift
Universities merge, departments close and registrars lose records. The further back the qualification, the harder it is to prove.
Education records are under attack.
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.
NCSC: 327 Cyber Incidents Reported by UK Education Sector
The National Cyber Security Centre reported a record number of cyber incidents affecting UK education institutions, with ransomware and data exfiltration targeting student and qualification records.
NCSC Annual Review, 2025
Capita: £14M Fine, Education Data Processor Breached
Capita processes data for hundreds of schools and education bodies. The ICO fined the company £14 million after hackers accessed personal data including education records.
ICO, October 2025
Co-op: 6.5 Million Members' Data Stolen
The Co-op breach demonstrated how organisations holding data across sectors, including education partnerships, are vulnerable to mass data exfiltration affecting qualification and membership records.
BBC News, 2025
Education Store
Your most sensitive data deserves protection that goes beyond software. Firevault provides the only storage that is physically disconnected from design.
The Scenario
A career put on hold by a missing certificate.
A senior consultant applies for a regulated role overseas. The university that issued her primary degree restructured a decade ago and her digital portal account is dormant. The replacement service has no record of her transcript. Her offer is delayed nine months. With a Firevault Education Store, the original certified scan and provenance trail would have been retrievable in minutes.
"Your career should not hang on whether a portal still exists."
Hold the originals offline. Prove them on demand.
Your Education Store holds degree certificates, transcripts, professional body records and continuing-education proofs inside a physically disconnected vault. Retrievable on demand, verifiable on request, never sat in someone else's portal.
- Offline Secure Storage for original qualifications and transcripts, offline by default and reachable per session
- Tamper-evident custody for professional body records and CPD
- Authorised retrieval for verification, applications and tribunals
- Identity-locked access, your record, your release
Take Qualifications Off Institution Portals
Step 1 of 3Degree certificates, transcripts, and professional qualifications are taken off institution portals and cloud drives and written to physically disconnected RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. No portal dependency. No dead links.
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Which Offline Secure Storage® fits running an oss education store?
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.
2TB – 8TB
High Frequency 24/7 Access
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Identity-locked retrieval for the qualifications that define your career. Stored offline, verifiable on demand.
What 2TB – 8TB holds
Use Cases for Running an OSS Education Store
- Degree certificates and university transcripts
- Professional body memberships and practising certificates
- Continuing professional development records
- Regulated qualification evidence packs
- International credential equivalence records
Specifications
Capacity
2TB – 8TB
Access
24/7 on-demand
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.
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Deal Readiness
Governed materials ready to share with confidence
Client Trust
Demonstrate stewardship that earns loyalty
Board Confidence
Clear governance that inspires stakeholders
Enterprise Scale
Structure data governance across your organisation
Who Uses Butterfly?
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Sales Teams
Secure client proposals, pricing, and commercial intelligence
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Service Providers
Exchange sensitive documents with clients through governed Vaults
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Businesses
Protect strategic plans, IP, and competitive intelligence
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Family Offices
Structure data governance across principals, staff, and advisors
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