Gregory Lemmon, Managing Director, UBIQUITY Ltd, Cybersecurity & Disaster Recovery Consultants to the Caribbean
I’ve worked with businesses across the Caribbean on cybersecurity and disaster recovery.
And the most dangerous thing I see consistently, island to island, across industries, every business size, isn’t sophisticated hackers or complex malware.
It’s the assumption that it won’t happen to them.
“We’re too small to be a target.” “We’re in the Caribbean; hackers aren’t focused on us.” “We have antivirus. We should be fine.”
I hear these statements more than I should in 2026. And every single one of them is wrong.
Here is the advice I give every Caribbean business owner who sits across from me:
A cyberattack is not an IT problem. It is a business problem. It affects your revenue, your reputation, your clients and in some cases your legal standing. The moment you hand it off entirely to your IT person and stop thinking about it, you’ve already created your biggest vulnerability.
Cybersecurity starts with a business decision, not a software installation.
Not always malicious. Usually just untrained.
The majority of successful cyberattacks on Caribbean businesses begin with a human error. A staff member clicks on a phishing email. Someone uses the same password across every account. A former employee’s access was never revoked after they left.
The most effective security investment you can make right now isn’t new software. It’s 90 minutes of staff training and a proper access management policy.
I speak to business owners every week who tell me confidently that they back up their data. When I ask when they last tested that backup, when they last actually restored from it and confirmed it works, the answer is almost always never.
A backup that hasn’t been tested is not a safety net. It’s a false sense of security. And discovering it doesn’t work during a ransomware attack or a hurricane recovery is not the time to find out.
Test your backups. At least quarterly. Without exception.
This is specific to us in the Caribbean and it doesn’t get said enough.
Every year between June and November, Caribbean businesses are simultaneously at their most physically vulnerable and their most digitally vulnerable. Distracted teams. Remote work setups rushed together. Reduced IT oversight. Cybercriminals know this calendar better than most business owners do.
Protecting your data from a storm and protecting it from a cyberattack are not two separate conversations. They are the same conversation. And they need to happen before June not after the storm passes.
The cybersecurity industry is full of products. Software, tools, platforms, dashboards. Caribbean businesses are sold these constantly and told they’re protected.
A product without a plan is just an expensive checkbox.
What your business actually needs is a documented, tested, end-to-end plan that covers how you prevent incidents, how you detect them, how you respond when they happen and how you recover. That plan should be reviewed at least annually and every time something significant changes in your business.
If that plan doesn’t exist the product doesn’t matter.
The Caribbean is not immune to the global cybersecurity crisis. If anything, our businesses are more exposed: smaller IT teams, tighter budgets, faster-moving threat actors and a regional culture that still largely treats cybersecurity as someone else’s problem.
That has to change. And it starts with business owners deciding that it does.
I work with Caribbean businesses every day to build the systems, plans and protections that keep them operational through storms, through incidents and through everything in between.
If you’re not sure where your business stands, let’s find out together.
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