Is your time worth $60,000/hour?

Let’s consider a hypothetical scenario: your computer has been hacked, and you don’t know it.

One day, a legitimate vendor emails you, asking for payment on a $10,000 invoice. The vendor includes ACH instructions in the email. But here's where things go wrong—unbeknownst to you, a bad actor has intercepted the email conversation and slipped in new payment instructions.

Without hesitation, you transfer $10,000, but instead of it going to the vendor, it lands in the criminal’s account.

Now, imagine if you had taken just 10 minutes out of your day to call the vendor and verify the ACH instructions. Yes, it’s more effort. Yes, it takes time. But think about it: 10 minutes of your time could have saved you from losing $10,000.

Now, flip the scenario. If someone offered you $60,000 for just an hour of your time, would you decline it, saying, "No, that's too much effort"? Of course not.

Security may feel like a hassle, but when you consider the potential cost of not taking those precautions, it’s clearly worth the small investment of time.