Taking care of the small things can greatly reduce your exposure to hacks
If you’re in charge of creating some kind of security barrier between your local networks and the internet, the challenge is to decide where on the spectrum you’re going to land with regard to the network traffic you are going to allow or deny.
For that barrier to have any work value, it almost certainly cannot be the cherubim with the fiery sword that guards the Garden of Eden. But you also don’t want it to be the George Washington Bridge, either.
Take heart, there are billions of devices and users that are connected to the internet, and if you’ll allow the punchline of the joke about the bear chasing two friends to paint a picture for you, “I just need to be faster than you.”