The Economic Impact of Cybersecurity Threats

^{November 14, 2025}

The UK’s latest growth figures reveal what happens when interconnected systems fail and impact the economy.

UK growth flatlined at just 0.1% in Q3 according to an early estimate from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in part due to operational downtime caused by major cyber incidents in 2025, including at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) that halted production across a key part of the UK motor industry for many weeks.

When a single attack can slow national output, it is clear that system fragility has become a significant economic risk. Our businesses, public services, and supply chains are increasingly connected but they can be compromised by outdated cybersecurity practices and human vulnerabilities.

In 2025, cyber incidents didn’t simply disrupt companies, they disrupted the country.

Most systems still rely on static verification, passwords, stored credentials, or central databases.

These approaches create single points of failure and once compromised, they put entire ecosystems at risk. It is impossible to prove integrity and authority in real time. When was a credential last verified? Who authorised a change? Was the data altered in transit? These are the questions traditional systems cannot answer instantly, at the point of action.

The result: trust becomes an assumption, and assumptions break under pressure.

The OS Credential Challenge replaces static trust with dynamic cryptographic proof, enabling organisations to verify an entity’s credentials securely, instantly, and without exposing their underlying data.

1. Challenge: A requesting entity (for example, a department, employer, or contractor) triggers a Credential Challenge, requesting proof of an existing credential, such as identity, clearance level, or authorisation.

2. Response: The credential owner grants permission for specific information to be shared as proof of verification. There is no “background inspection” or uncontrolled data sharing, only the relevant proof is shared.

3. Immutable Record: The OS Trust Engine records each interaction as cryptographic proof, secured by Threshold Encryption that requires multiple contextual keys to unlock, ensuring no single breach can compromise the data.

Origin Secured’s approach creates a continuous, verifiable state of trust that scales across people, organisations, and assets.

• For operations: it streamlines onboarding, authorisation, and access control without adding new systems or interfaces.

• For compliance: it provides real-time evidence, not retrospective audits.

• For security: it delivers contextual verification, eliminating insider misuse and credential theft.

• For governance: it provides a single, cryptographic record of accountability. It is not about having more information, it is about accessing and sharing information you can trust.