The Root Cause of Every Risk
Every security failure traces back to one of four root causes. Traditional security addresses symptoms. Firevault addresses causes with Offline Secure Storage®.
- Cyber attacks
- Human errors
- Architectural flaws
- Skill gaps
Four Causes. One Architecture.
Every breach, every incident, every compliance failure traces back to one of these four fundamental causes.
The Economic Cost of Cyber Attacks, UK Government Research
Eight UK Government research programmes (2025) quantify the cost of cyber attacks to the UK economy, from individual fraud to systemic infrastructure incidents.
Read the full DSIT/Home Office report (PDF)People who became fraud victims as a direct result of data breaches in 2023
Annual cost of fraud resulting from data breaches in the UK
Increased likelihood of fraud for individuals affected by a data breach
ICO Data Security Incident Trends
Data security incidents reported to the ICO in 2024
Increase in ICO-reported data security incidents over five years (2019 to 2024)
UK businesses that experienced a cyber breach or attack
Fraud cases in the UK (year ending September 2024), a 19% increase year-on-year
UK Breach Breakdown
Short-term increase in fraud probability when credit card data is breached
Share of all UK fraud victims whose fraud resulted from a data breach
Business breaches involving phishing attacks
Large UK businesses identifying a breach or attack
NCA National Strategic Assessment 2025
Fraud as a share of all crime in England and Wales
People aged 16 and over in England and Wales estimated to have been fraud victims (7% of the population)
Of fraud reported in the UK is cyber-enabled
Only 14% of frauds against individuals are reported to Action Fraud or police
DSIT/KPMG Economic Impact of Cyber Attacks 2025
Total annual cost to UK businesses of significant cyber attacks, 0.5% of GDP
Annual cost to the UK economy from IP and knowledge assets theft via cyber attacks (0.04%–0.30% of GDP)
Total economic cost of a one-week systemic cyber incident to the GB rail network
Annual patient impact from cyber attacks on major UK hospitals (estimated 3 incidents per year)
Average cost per scam or fraud cyber attack to a UK business
Decline in SME sales growth in the year of a cyber attack involving IP theft
Rise in reported cyber attack cases between 2022 and 2023
Consumer impact per cyber attack resulting in loss of access to online banking (3-day outage)
These are only the reported incidents
The ICO acknowledges these figures represent only breaches that were discovered and reported within 72 hours. The true scale of data exposure is significantly higher. The average time to detect a breach is 277 days.
Once data is breached, fraud follows
The UK Government model identifies three breach-to-fraud journeys: direct monetisation of financial data, identity theft from personal records, and bulk credential exploitation. Firevault addresses all three by taking data offline entirely.
One Architecture. Four Root Causes. Complete Protection.
Firevault does not try to patch each root cause individually. Our physically disconnected architecture addresses all four simultaneously by removing the fundamental assumption that data must always be reachable.
No path for attackers
Limited blast radius
Physical air gap
Works without experts
Address every root cause of data loss
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