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5 Cybersecurity Gaps That Kill Startups Before Series B

You hit your revenue targets. Your retention is beautiful. Then a VC’s due diligence team asks for your SOC 2 readiness, and suddenly, your Series B is dead on arrival.

In 2024, cybersecurity isn't just an IT problem—it's a dealbreaker. Enterprise clients won't sign, and investors won't wire funds if your digital house is made of glass. Here are the five gaps that silently kill startups:

1. The "Shadow Admin" Epidemic

You revoked access for that developer who left six months ago, right? Probably not. Stale SSO accounts with superadmin privileges are the #1 way attackers lateral-move into your production environment. Action: Enforce automated deprovisioning via your identity provider the second an employee leaves.

2. Plaintext API Keys in GitHub

It takes a bot less than 30 seconds to scrape a public repo for AWS keys.…