Secured.
The cybersecurity survival guide for protecting your business.
The most common threats small businesses face, the controls that stop them, and what to do if something goes wrong — no scare tactics, just what works.
Written by Leigh Harrison, Stack2's founder and an IT professional — plain English, no jargon.
Fear of cybersecurity is what makes businesses vulnerable to it.
Many business owners treat cybersecurity as a scary subject to avoid, not a system to build. That fear leads to "techno-stress" and apathy — if a problem feels too overwhelming, people disengage completely, which ironically makes them more exposed to the exact threats they're avoiding thinking about. This book isn't here to manufacture urgency. It's here to demystify the topic and give you a framework you can actually follow, without needing to become a security expert first.
Three parts, thirteen chapters, plus a jargon decoder.
Part I — The What & The Why
- What Cybersecurity Is — a plain-English definition, not a vendor pitch.
- The ROI of Investing in Cybersecurity — how to think about the spend as protecting revenue, not a sunk cost.
- The Most Common Threats — the handful of attack types responsible for most small business breaches.
- Follow a Framework — why a documented framework beats reacting to whatever headline scared you this week.
Part II — The Top Controls
- People & Identity — the human controls that stop most attacks before they start.
- Devices & Endpoint Security — keeping every laptop and phone that touches business data under control.
- Email, Web & Collaboration Security — locking down the tools your team uses every single day.
- Data Protection — knowing what data you actually have, and protecting it accordingly.
- Networks & Cloud Basics — the infrastructure fundamentals in plain English.
- Vendor & Third-Party Risk — because your security is only as strong as the suppliers you trust.
Part III — The Final Layer of Protection
- Incident Response & Business Continuity — what to actually do in the first hours after something goes wrong.
- Compliance & Governance for SMBs — the obligations that apply even if you're not a big enterprise.
- Conclusion — pulling the framework together into next steps.
Plus a Jargon Decoder at the back, so every acronym used earlier in the book is defined in one place.
When you're ready to act on the framework, we'll manage it for you.
Stack2's Cyber Security service covers the people, device, email and data controls this book walks through — monitored and managed, so it isn't another document sitting unread in a drawer.