This is the Electe Review. Today, the myth that small businesses are too small to matter to hackers. Electee's 2026 Guide for SMBs makes one argument clearly. Attackers now prefer small and medium-sized businesses precisely because they're small. Fewer IT staff, thinner budgets, weaker monitoring, and the same valuable customer and financial data as larger firms. Size is not protection. It's the opening attackers count on. The guide lays out concrete measures rather than vague advice. On the technical side, multi-factor authentication, encrypted backups, network segmentation, and regular patching. On the emerging side, AI-based threat detection tools that flag anomalies faster than manual review ever could. Though the guide is careful to note AI is a tool for triage, not a replacement for basic hygiene. Most breaches still start with something mundane: an unpatched system, a reused password, an employee who clicks the wrong link. That's where the operational half of the guide matters most. Staff training, incident response plans, and clear data handling policies are treated as equally critical to firewalls and encryption. A technically secure system with untrained staff is still an open door. The guide's practical checklist format reflects that. It isn't asking SMBs to build enterprise grade security operations centers, it's asking them to close the gaps that are cheapest and fastest to close. The skeptical read here This is a vendor-adjacent guide, and AI-based detection and actionable checklist are exactly the kind of language that sells services. But the underlying claim that SMBs are targeted because they're underdefended, not because they're beneath notice, is consistent with what's been reported industry-wide for years. The real test isn't whether a business reads this checklist, but whether it implements even the basics, MFA, backups, and training. Most breaches don't require sophisticated attacks. They require an unlocked door. If there's a gap in the guide, it's that practical for SMBs still assumes a level of ongoing investment many small firms won't sustain past the first quarter. A checklist is only as good as the follow through. That's the review.