Your Startup's Biggest Security Vulnerability Isn't Your Code — It's You
Hey there.
Alright folks, I’m going to tell you something your dev team already knows but is too polite to say to your face: the biggest security hole in your company isn’t in your codebase. It’s sitting in the founder’s chair.
I’ve spent 25+ years in business warfare — buying troubled companies, turning them around, doing private security consulting, and researching cybersecurity from the operator’s side, not the engineer’s. And I can tell you this with total confidence: when small businesses get hacked, it’s almost never some hoodie-wearing genius cracking encryption. It’s a founder reusing a password. It’s an admin clicking a link. It’s someone handing over the keys because the “IT guy” on the phone sounded convincing.
Hackers don’t break in. They log in.
The math nobody wants to do.
Here’s the part that should scare you straight. The average cost of a data breach for a small business...
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