How This Overlooked Risk Can Collapse Your Startup Overnight

Key Takeaways

Startups often prioritize speed over security, creating hidden risks that can lead to catastrophic failures.

The real threat isn’t external hackers, but insecure developer practices and a lack of accountability in engineering culture.

To succeed in the long term, startups should normalize best practices, use secure coding tools and implement security training for all engineers, regardless of their specialties.

Bill Gates once said, “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

Startup founders rarely think of their companies as inefficient, due to the many tasks they must juggle at onc