The most common question I encounter from startup, small, and developing businesses: “how can I make sure my stuff is secure?” It’s a good question, one even highly talented software engineers and cybersecurity analysts fail to answer well. The reason is that cybersecurity isn’t a single-talent discipline. The practice of security crosses domains because whole systems can be compromised when just one aspect of it contains a hidden weakness to be exploited.

Realistically, a small business owner can contract a developer to write an API for their ordering system with relative ease. But if there is a section of code that contains a back door to access their businesses’ database at will – how would that small business owner ever know about it until too late?

Cybersecurity is both its own business process and has components that need to be integrated into every business process you have. The practice of cybersecurity is to harden your system against known and theoretical threats, prepare to respond to threats, detect threat activity, and respond to cybersecurity incidents. Regardless of the size of your organization, there are appropriate steps you should realistically be taking to increase your cybersecurity. Even corporate giants in technology cannot fend off state-level threat actors for long, but if you don’t ensure your wifi router at a very minimum no longer uses the default password, you’re likely to wake up to a demand for bitcoin if you want to be able to access your documents again.

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