Growth is exciting—but if your cybersecurity isn’t growing with you, you might be heading for a fall.

For small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), the early days often revolve around sales, product development, and building customer relationships. Cybersecurity and compliance? Often seen as “later problems.” But the reality is, as your business scales, your exposure to risk—and regulatory pressure—increases dramatically. Welcome to the compliance cliff.

You don’t need to be breached to be exposed.

Before a single phishing email is sent or a vulnerability is exploited, cybercriminals are already working—silently gathering data about your business from the open internet. It’s called Open-Source Intelligence, or OSINT, one of the most overlooked stages of the attack cycle.

The worst part? You’re probably helping them—without even realizing it.