Forbes January 20, 2026
Cybersecurity budgets keep rising. So do breaches. For small and mid-sized businesses, that paradox is particularly painful: they face the same attackers as global corporations but without the budgets, staff, or expertise to defend themselves.
Most successful attacks aren’t the result of nation-state zero-days. They’re the basics—an unpatched system, default credentials, missing multi-factor authentication, or a backup that fails when it’s needed most. These are solvable problems, but solving them consistently requires leadership and accountability. And for many businesses, that’s exactly what’s missing.
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