hink your company is too small to attract hackers? That misplaced confidence is exactly why SMBs are prime targets. We break down the real economics driving cybercrime—ease, scale, and profit—and show how default settings, fragile backups, and identity gaps create the perfect on-ramp for ransomware, credential theft, and supply chain abuse.

We also dive into AI risk and intellectual property protection, exploring the new concept of poisoning models with plausible false data to deter theft, and the hidden risks if staff credentials are compromised. From knowledge graphs and RAG to email spoofing and business email compromise, we map how attackers exploit soft spots that leaders often overlook. Then we translate cyber into business language—revenue at risk per day, cost of downtime per department, and cash reserves versus recovery timelines—so decisions align with the realities of payroll, billing, and customer trust.

You’ll come away with immediate, practical steps: enforce MFA everywhere, harden email with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, deploy EDR, and maintain offline immutable backups you actually test. We share five essential monthly metrics—MFA coverage, phishing report versus click rate, critical patch age, EDR endpoint coverage, and backup restore success—that turn security from guessing into measurable progress. If you rely on uptime for revenue, we explain when MDR or a SOC makes financial sense by compressing detection time from weeks to hours.

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