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You just do the best you can. Totally secure is a myth. As a smaller company, however, you have an advantage that your footprint is much smaller and easier to r

You just do the best you can. Totally secure is a myth. As a smaller company, however, you have an advantage that your footprint is much smaller and easier to reason about. The larger you become, the more software you have to run, the more you have to manage, the more lucrative an attack on your systems will be for the attackers. That's why in security we don't play the blame game when someone gets hacked. We know it could happen to any of us, might already have happened, and we're all doing the best we can with the resources we have.

ams6110 8y ago
> The larger you become, the more software you have to run, the more you have to manage, the more lucrative an attack on your systems will be for the attackers. Also the more people you have who might be compromised. It's almost a certainty that there are people with access inside Facebook who are or have been corrupted. That can happen in a small company too, but the risk/reward is usually lower and there are many fewer people who can be targeted. One person with a thumb drive can exfiltrate a highly damaging amount of data.
- mynameisvlad 8y ago
  It's not even just corruption, there's plenty of phishing attempts targeted at employees and it only takes one to potentially gain access to a lot of data depending on how systems are set up.