Why it matters
Most small-business website hacks aren't dramatic. They're quiet, slow, and expensive. Here's the honest version — no fear-mongering, no buzzwords.
You don't need to be a target to be hit
Hackers don't sit and pick their victims one by one. They run automated bots that scan the entire internet looking for the easiest possible websites to break into. A WordPress site with an outdated plugin and no HTTPS is exactly that target — regardless of whether you sell candles, run a dental practice or manage a tiny non-profit.
The goal is rarely to ruin your business. The goal is to use your site to send spam, host phishing pages, mine crypto on your server, or steal whatever customer data is sitting in your database. You may not even notice for months.
Three things that quietly hurt you
1. Your customers stop trusting you
When a browser shows the red "Not Secure" warning, when an email from you lands in spam because your DMARC is missing, when Google flags your site as "deceptive" because someone slipped malware onto it — visitors leave and don't come back. Most won't tell you why.
2. A breach costs more than the fix would have
The average small-business website cleanup costs €2,000–€8,000 once you add the developer hours, the lost revenue, the customer notifications and (if personal data leaked) the fines. A €0 scan that flags the issue beforehand is a different conversation entirely.
3. Regulators have started checking
Two regulations matter for small businesses in the EU right now:
- GDPR (Article 32) — you must take "appropriate technical measures" to protect personal data on your site. If a breach happens and you can't show what you did, you're exposed to fines up to 4% of annual turnover.
- NIS2 — entered force in 2024, with the first audit cycle running through 2026. It expands the list of organisations required to demonstrate baseline cybersecurity hygiene — including a lot of mid-sized companies that used to be out of scope.
We map every finding in your report to the relevant article — so when your accountant or an auditor asks "did you check this?", you have a PDF that says yes, with a date.
The good news
90% of what hackers exploit on small-business websites is well-known, well-documented and cheap to fix. Missing HSTS? One line in your web server config. No DMARC? One DNS record. Outdated WordPress? One click. The hard part isn't fixing — it's knowing what to fix.
That's literally what Scanthra is for. We tell you, in plain English, what the bots see when they look at your site — so you can fix the easy stuff before they find it.
What a Scanthra report gives you
- An overall security grade (A–F) you can show to a client or board.
- A short Executive Summary written in business language.
- Each finding with: what it is, why it matters for your business, and how to fix it yourself.
- A compliance map (GDPR Art. 32 · NIS2 · OWASP Top 10).
- A glossary so jargon never gets in the way.