10 Cybersecurity Mistakes Small Businesses Make

When we sit down with a small business for the first time, the same handful of gaps tend to show up again and again — not because anyone was careless, but because cybersecurity rarely gets dedicated attention when there's no dedicated team.

Common patterns include shared logins used by multiple employees, multi-factor authentication turned on for some accounts but not others, former employees who still technically have access to systems, and backups that have never actually been tested for recovery.

None of these are dramatic failures — they're the kind of small, accumulated gaps that build up over years of a business simply focusing on running itself. The goal of an assessment isn't to assign blame; it's to find these gaps before they turn into a bigger problem.