🛡️ Protection plans
A protection plan is a container of protected data with its own access rules. Inheriti® Business offers two plan types.
| Data Backup Plan | Business Continuity Plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Everyday shared access to protected data | Data that must outlive its creator |
| Access approval | Authentication + moderation | Authentication + moderation |
| Dead Man Switch | No | Yes |
| Typical use | Team credentials, documents, media | Bank access, contracts, critical company data |
Both plan types protect passwords, documents, photos and files. How a plan is shared and guarded is set per plan: see Plan properties.
What happens when you create a plan
You add your data, choose the teams and the rules, and confirm. In the background, your browser:
- Encrypts everything in your browser
- Splits it into shares that are useless on their own
- Distributes the shares across the storage layers
From that moment the data exists only as scattered, encrypted pieces that reassemble exclusively under your rules.
The member who creates a plan becomes its Plan Creator, the closest person to its data. On a Data Backup plan the creator is always a moderator of it; on a Business Continuity plan the creator manages the Dead Man Switch instead. Owners, managers and members of a team can create plans (members through their team, and only once they have claimed the Organisation Key). Every plan carries its own rules, so one organisation comfortably holds everyday credentials next to its most critical continuity data.