In a roundabout way: you can insure against data breaches and costs associated with it, etc. And if you're contracting you'd better make sure you have indemnit

In a roundabout way: you can insure against data breaches and costs associated with it, etc. And if you're contracting you'd better make sure you have indemnity insurance yourself: it's something software engineers who start freelancing often (always?) overlook. But you can bet that if - for example - some security breach was pinpointed to code that you had written as a freelancer that your client will come after you.