A new week just started and somewhere right now a developer is shipping a feature without testing it for security vulnerabilities, a founder is launching a product without a security review, and a user is logging into an account with the same password they've used since 2018.
None of them think anything will go wrong. Most of them will be right.
Until one day they won't be.
So let this be your Monday reminder.
If you're a developer:
➩ Validate every input your application accepts.
➩ Never trust what the user sends, verify it server side.
➩ Test your application the way an attacker would before someone else does it for you.
➩ Check your dependencies, outdated libraries are silent vulnerabilities waiting to be triggered.
If you're a founder:
➩ Security is not something you add after launch, it's a decision you make before the first line of code.
➩ A security review before launch costs a fraction of what a breach costs after it.
➩ Your users are trusting you with their data, that trust is your responsibility, not your developer's alone.
➩ The question isn't whether you can afford security, it's whether you can afford the alternative.
If you're a user:
➩ Stop reusing passwords, one breach exposes every account that shares it.
➩ Turn on Multi-Factor Authentication using an authenticator app, not SMS.
➩ Check every link before you click it, virustotal.com is free and takes 10 seconds.
➩ If something feels off about a message, a link, or a request, trust that feeling.
Most hacks are not sophisticated. They succeed because someone assumed it wouldn't happen to them.
Let's all be a little more intentional about security this week.
