Two security experts explain why last-minute, company-wide cybersecurity overhauls cost the most money and create the most rework. They argue for building security incrementally over years instead, letting founders make small early bets that prevent emergency fixes and keep security from becoming a blocker to growth.
And the worst thing that a company can do, the most expensive way to do it, is by bringing a team like ours or whoever in to throw a Hail Mary, you know, 80 yards in the final hour. In the final hour.
Well, and that's not something you want to be negotiating. If you've built it the right way all along, you have the infrastructure in place. If you're doing it under duress on a really short timeline, and it's not sustainable, right?
Like, so the companies we've done this, it's like we're back the next year trying to replumb it back. I would rather have a relationship where we're building it over 3 years than like everything at once in a big bang. And then we're fixing it because there's a lot of churn. There's a lot of pain for both the organization. And then at that point, cyber is seen as an impediment because you got to do it all at once. Stepwise approach. I would advocate for that if founders and growth company leaders can kind of, you know, start early and make easy bets that don't have to be something bigger than they need.
