What are the most common cybersecurity vulnerabilities in small and medium-sized businesses?
- Limited employee cybersecurity awareness and training
- Incorrect access provisioning during onboarding (wrong roles or permissions)
- Failure to promptly remove access during offboarding
- Missing, unreliable, or untested data backups
- Weak or poorly documented security policies and procedures
- Delayed maintenance and missed security patches on systems and apps
- Misconfigured access controls, permissions, or role-based access (RBAC)
- Insufficient logging and monitoring of user and admin activity
- Inability to detect or respond to suspicious or malicious user behavior
- Not performing regular vulnerability scans and risk assessments
- Lack of a risk-based approach to prioritize vulnerabilities and business impact
- Excessive, shared, or redundant administrator privileges
- Use of outdated or weak SSL/TLS configurations
- Incorrect or missing email security records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)