For Small Business Cybersecurity, What’s a “Control”?

11/10/2025 (c)Larisa Breton All Rights Reserved. No portion of this blog may be copied or re-used without the author's written permission.

To improve your small business' cybersecurity, you have to start somewhere. To go from zero to one, you need to use cybersecurity controls. But what are they, are they super technical, do you need to understand IT to do them? Nope. Read on.

You're a SHERO - a Small Business Harnessing and Empowered by Real-life Opportunity.

SHEROs, you can identify and implement controls, yourself. No tech skills required, no insane learning curves, no need to overspend on a solution that's not right for your business size.

What's a cybersecurity control? For a smallbiz, a cybersecurity control is:

1) A DECISION you made to do things a certain way consistently, such as not using the same password on multiple apps; and

2) A TECHNOLOGY you are using, such as a password manager, that helps to enforce the decision you made to protect something.

Importantly, you can prove both your decision - because you documented it - and the use of the technology - because you are using it consistently and it can be shown. Bet.

You deserve to preserve what you've built. 

As your smallbiz cyber coach, I want you to create a sensible and easy cybersecurity situation for your smallbiz. This frees you up to do what you're great at while securing what you've built. And you can get the information you need to get started, and go from "zero" to "something" for free here on the website. Download your free Guide, finish 2025 strong

- xo Larisa