Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones (1969)

Build your cyber shelter with firewalls & backups

Mick Jagger sang it best, “It’s just a shot away.”  For SMBs, that shot isn’t a hurricane or war, it’s a phishing email, a dodgy USB stick, or Dave in Accounts clicking on “urgent invoice.pdf.”

Shelter isn’t just a roof over your head anymore.  Your cyber shelter is built out of firewalls, MFA, and a decent backup plan.  Without it, you’re basically standing in the digital rain with a leaky umbrella, wondering why your data’s floating downstream.

Gen X grew up making forts out of sofa cushions and old duvets.  Same principle applies here, you don’t just build a shelter for fun, you build it because your little brother (read: hackers) is definitely going to try and knock it down.

Backups are the sleeping bag in your fort, they keep you safe when everything else collapses.  Firewalls?  That’s the blanket over the entrance.  Not glamorous, but it keeps the bad stuff out.

Cyber resilience means not waiting until the storm hits to start hammering up boards.  Build your shelter now. 

Because in cyber, the rain doesn’t just fall, it floods.