08/23/2025
When Trust Walks Out the Door
A developer just got four years in prison for planting a “kill switch” inside his company’s network. The second his name was deleted from the directory, the system locked down, coworkers shut out, everything grinding to a halt. Eleven years of work—and he burned it all down on the way out.
Now, maybe you’ve never seen something that extreme. But let’s be honest—we’ve all been there. The employee who storms out and deletes files. The one who wipes a shared folder clean before turning in the keys. The quiet “virtual finger” to the people left behind.
It’s personal. It hurts. And it leaves you scrambling. Because in small business, it’s not theory—it’s survival. One bad exit can cost you clients, data, even your reputation.
That’s the lesson here: trust matters, but trust alone won’t save you. You need guardrails—smart offboarding, layered access, systems that don’t put the whole farm in one person’s hands. And you need someone watching your back before the damage is done.
That’s why I believe in what we do at 24K Technology Services (www.24ktechsolutions.com). We’re here for the owners who don’t have an IT department, who can’t afford a shutdown, who just want to protect what they’ve built. We’ve seen how fast things can go wrong, and we know how to keep you covered.
Because loyalty is earned, but security is planned.
