When Startup Founders Should Start Thinking About Cybersecurity

The article describes Volt Typhoon, a Chinese APT, actively exploiting a high‑severity SD‑WAN vulnerability (CVE-2024-39717) in Versa Director to deploy a custom credential‑grabbing web shell and breach four U.S. customers and one in India, and uses this and other examples (such as the Verkada breach) to illustrate how startups and scaleups can be devastated by cyber incidents and why investors should require stronger security and due diligence.