Five cyber security moves every small business in Greece should make this month.
Most cyber security articles are written for Fortune 500 CISOs. Useless if you're a 6-person hotel, a family law firm in Kolonaki, or a boutique e-shop running out of a Pireus warehouse. So here's the actual list — five things you can do this month, mostly for free, that will put you ahead of 90% of Greek SMEs.
Turn on 2FA. Everywhere. Today.
Email, banking, hosting, social media, cloud storage. If it has a login, it gets two-factor authentication. Use an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Aegis, 1Password) — not SMS. SMS is trivially intercepted in 2026 and the Greek mobile carriers have all leaked subscriber data at least once.
This single step blocks roughly 99% of the credential-stuffing attacks we see in the wild. It costs zero euros and twenty minutes.
Stop reusing passwords
Every breach we've helped clean up over the last three years started with one reused password. The owner used the same password for the office Wi-Fi, the accounting software and a forum they signed up for in 2014. The forum got breached. The attacker tried the same email-password combo on the bank. Done.
Buy a password manager. 1Password and Bitwarden both work fine. Generate unique passwords for everything. The team adoption takes about a week of grumbling and then nobody notices.
Backups that aren't connected
Ransomware doesn't only encrypt your laptop. It encrypts every drive your laptop can reach — including that 'backup' external SSD plugged into your USB hub. A real backup is offline (unplugged) or off-site (cloud, with versioning).
Test the restore. We've watched companies discover their backups were corrupted only after they tried to restore from them at 2am during an active incident. Restore one file every month, just to prove it works.
Update everything you forgot existed
Routers, NAS boxes, IP cameras, the printer. These are the boring devices nobody patches, and they're the ones the bots scan for first. Log into your router's admin panel. If you can't remember when you last updated the firmware, do it now, and change the default password while you're there.
Same for WordPress plugins, your e-commerce theme, the macOS version on the receptionist's machine. Outdated software is the unlocked back door.
Train the humans
The phishing email that takes you down won't look like a Nigerian prince. It'll look like a DHL delivery notice, a fake Microsoft 365 password reset, or — increasingly — a deepfake voice note from someone who sounds like your CEO asking for a wire transfer.
Spend one lunch per quarter walking the team through real examples. Make it normal to forward suspicious emails to one person who can verify. The cheapest, most effective security control we know is a culture of 'when in doubt, ask.'
You don't need a SOC, an MDR contract, or a CISO. You need to do the boring five things above, and you need to do them this month. The bar for not getting breached as a Greek SME is genuinely low — most attacks target the company that didn't bother.
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