Most attacks aren’t sophisticated
The businesses that get breached usually aren’t targeted by a genius hacker — they’re caught by automated scans looking for the same handful of common mistakes: weak passwords, unpatched software, and no two-factor authentication. Fixing those closes most of the real risk.
The essentials, in order of impact
- Two-factor authentication on email, admin panels and anything financial — this alone stops most account-takeover attempts
- Regular software and plugin updates — most breaches exploit known, already-patched vulnerabilities
- Unique passwords per system, stored in a password manager, not reused or written down
- Automated, tested backups — not just backups that exist, but ones you’ve confirmed can be restored
- Restricted admin access — give people the access they need, not blanket admin rights by default
Our take
We build security hygiene into every project by default — nonces on forms, restricted file permissions, dependencies kept current — rather than treating it as a separate add-on service. The basics above cost very little to implement and prevent the overwhelming majority of real incidents.