The Year-End Meltdown, The Credential Compromise, The Grant Deadline Disaster, The "We Can't Afford Security" Trap
It's December 28th. Your donor database is running slow. Online giving forms are timing out. Your IT provider is "on holiday." Year-end giving is 30% of annual donations for many nonprofits. Every hour of downtime during this window costs you donors who won't come back to retry., Someone's password gets compromised. An attacker tries to log in from overseas - looking to access donor payment information or redirect donations. Without real-time threat monitoring, you don't catch this until donors start getting phishing emails "from" your organization. With it the suspicious login gets blocked automatically., Major grant application is due tomorrow. Your grant management system won't export the reports you need. The data's in there somewhere but you can't get it out. You can't call the funder and say "our computer didn't work." Either you submit on time or you don't. That's potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars.,Board asks about cybersecurity. You explain that real security is expensive and you're a nonprofit. Everyone nods and moves on. Cybercriminals target nonprofits precisely because they assume you can't afford security. The average data breach costs $4.45 million. Can you afford that?
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