Beyond Product Management · 2026-07-23 · 12 min
Most founders treat cybersecurity like a next-quarter problem - invisible, technical, easy to push to the bottom of the list, underneath "hire," underneath "launch," underneath "figure out Q4." In this episode, Heather makes the case for why that's exactly backwards: cybersecurity isn't a compliance checkbox or an IT problem. It's a business protection strategy. Using the story of two identical-looking houses - one with an unlocked door, one locked and watched - Heather unpacks why "nothing's gone wrong yet" isn't the same as being protected. It just means no one's tried the handle yet. She also shares a real story from years of consulting: a hacker who quietly planted a backdoor and waited, undetected, before ever exploiting it - a reminder that the scariest breaches aren't always loud ones. From there, Heather reframes what security should actually feel like: not a big, scary initiative, but a habit - as automatic and low-lift as putting on a seatbelt.
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