Build Your Communications Archive on a Foundation of Trust
Turn archiving from an operational burden into a trusted foundation for compliant retention, fast retrieval, and audit readiness.
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Unparalleled control. Unparalleled accessibility.
Shield Archive ensures your communications data is immutable, centralized, and always accessible — delivering enterprise-grade archiving with full ownership and zero hidden costs.
Compliant
Ensures completeness and accuracy of all records according to your rules and global retention requirements, including SEC, CFTC, FINRA, MiFID II.
Secure
Private cloud, single tenant archiving keeps all your communications data and records stored safely and securely in the one place at all times.
Accessible
Enables swift and easy retrieval , with zero delays, for investigations, audits, and regulatory obligations, as well as and risk management.
Transparent Commercial Model
No export fees, no exit fees, and optimized storage architecture. You own your data — without surprises.
Independently Evaluated
Ranked a Top 3 Vendor for Archive Platforms in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving.
Built for oversight across your organization
Shield Archive supports every stakeholder in your governance framework — from compliance leadership to records management teams.
For Compliance
Leadership
For Compliance Leadership
Unified oversight across every channel and jurisdiction — with reduced vendor sprawl and lower TCO.
Secure single-tenancy aligned to privacy, sovereignty, and operational risk requirements.
For Investigations & eDiscovery
For Investigations & eDiscovery
Respond to regulatory inquiries and legal matters quickly and with confidence.
Customer-controlled data retrieval, review, and export — without vendor delays, export fees, exit fees, or other hidden costs.
For Records Management
For Records Management
Original and enriched records in one unified platform.
Policy-driven retention, flexible global residency controls, and automated completeness reporting — delivering end-to-end auditability.
Ensure the integrity and usability of your communications data
Shield Archive ensures your communications data is immutable, centralized, and always accessible — delivering enterprise-grade archiving with full ownership and zero hidden costs.
Full fidelity data preservation
Preserve every record in its original form — tamperproof, encrypted, and audit-ready across channels and jurisdictions.
Support for 100+ data sources and legacy archives
Encrypted WORM storage aligned with SEC 17a-4, MiFID II, and FINRA
Preservation of original and enriched records with deduplication, full traceability, and a robust chain of custody to ensure consistency
Automated completeness and reconciliation reporting
Out-of-the-box, high-paced, highly scalable migrations of historical data with verified, audit-grade file-level completeness
Investigation-ready, at all times
Respond quickly to regulatory inquiries, legal matters, and internal investigations with full, on-demand access.
On-demand exports of raw, enriched, and metadata records
Integrated legal hold management with full audit transparency
Policy-driven retention configurable by channel, region, and regulatory context
Centralized management of legal holds, retention policies, and audit exports from a single interface
Cross-regulation. Cross-region. Cross-channel.
Shield Archive supports the full spectrum of global regulatory frameworks, ensuring your firm stays ahead of evolving requirements across jurisdictions.
SEC 17a-4
US securities record keeping
CFTC
US derivatives & commodities
FINRA
US securities record keeping
MiFID II
EU financial instruments
From US broker-dealers to EU financial institutions, Shield Archive is purpose-built for multi-jurisdictional compliance — matching the regulatory depth of leading platforms while maintaining unmatched data ownership standards.
Designed for regulatory defensibility. Built around full data ownership.
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Data Ownership
The EU Data Act formalizes customer rights around data portability and provider switching. Shield Archive was aligned with these principles long before they became regulatory requirements — because portability and customer control were built into our architecture from the outset.
- Data structured and exportable in standard, portable formats
- Flexible, high-granularity exports from anywhere within the platform
- Data structured and exportable in standard, portable formats
- No export fees or exit penalties
- Operational continuity in the event of provider transition
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Cost Efficiencies
Hot Tier
For frequently accessed data. Always-on metadata, seconds-level search SLA.
Cold Tier
For compliant long-term retention. Text offline, metadata still searchable and returned.
Warm-Up Flow
For on-demand retrieval. Restore cold records to hot tier temporarily — auto-expires back after review.
Shield your firm from risk.
Shield Archive is the trusted data foundation within Shield’s end-to-end Digital Communications Governance and Archiving platform — connecting every stage of your compliance workflow.
One archive layer. One retention framework. One trusted data foundation — powering smarter, faster communications compliance from ingestion to investigation.
Gain full control of your communications archive
Establish a defensible, future-ready archive built on transparency, integrity, and customer ownership. No hidden costs. No vendor lock-in. Just complete control.
Start the conversation
Talk to a Shield expert to assess your current archiving posture and regulatory exposure.
See the platform in action
Get a tailored demo of Shield Archive within the full end-to-end compliance platform.
Evaluate to your needs
Run structured validation of compliance coverage, performance benchmarks, and data integrity.
Deploy with confidence
Go live with a trusted foundation — audit-ready from day one, built to scale with your firm.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you charge export or exit fees?
No. Your data remains accessible and portable at all times. Shield Archive operates on a customer-owned data model — there are no extraction penalties, exit fees, or commercial barriers to accessing your own records.
What data formats can be exported?
Raw records, enriched records, and metadata can all be exported on demand — in structured, industry-standard formats ready for regulatory review, legal proceedings, or migration.
Can we migrate our historical data into Shield Archive?
Yes. Shield supports seamless, non-disruptive migrations for multi-petabyte environments, ensuring file-level completeness across 100+ data sources. Migration processes preserve record structure, completeness, and regulatory integrity while consolidating both live and historical communications data into a single governed platform. Our proven track record includes migrating and reconciling 70+ billion records annually for some of the world’s largest regulated firms.
How do legal holds work?
Legal holds can be applied directly within the platform, with full audit traceability. Holds are managed centrally alongside retention policies and audit exports from a single interface.
How do you ensure completeness?
Automated reconciliation reporting and tamperproof audit trails provide defensible proof of record integrity. Every record is tracked from ingestion through retention with full chain of custody.
How do you support global data residency?
Retention and storage policies can be configured by region, channel, and regulatory context to meet sovereignty requirements across jurisdictions.
What compliance frameworks does Shield Archive support?
Shield Archive is aligned with SEC 17a-4, FINRA, CFTC, and MiFID II for archive-native recordkeeping. Security and resilience controls are separately aligned with GDPR and DORA expectations.
Is Shield Archive single-tenant or multi-tenant?
Shield Archive operates on a private cloud, single-tenant architecture — ensuring complete data isolation. Your data never shares infrastructure with another organization.
How does Shield validate its security posture?
Security is at the heart of our operations. We undergo yearly SOC 2 Type II audits and independent penetration testing to continually validate our security- and privacy-first architecture. Our core certifications include SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and DORA.
Has Shield Archive been independently validated?
Yes. Shield has been independently validated by Gartner® in their 2025 Critical Capabilities for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving (DCGA) Solutions. Shield Archive ranks a Top 3 Archive Platform, while Shield scores in the top 3 vendors across every use case evaluated. Learn more here: shieldfc.com/gartner-critical-capabilities-dcga
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