This summer, attackers hit thirty Minnesota water systems and utilities in seven states through exposed, default-password controllers. A federal reporting rule is coming but not yet in force. This piece lays out a one-page check, covering inventory, remote access, passwords, and recovery, worth asking your CEO to sign.
Microsoft just signed an enforceable AI privacy standard for schools with teachers unions. It binds only Microsoft, but buyers will expect the same terms from everyone else. Private schools, tutoring companies, and edtech vendors should adopt the same contract language now, before a buyer demands it.
AI has scrubbed the tells from closing fraud: the broken English, the mismatched voice, the clumsy email. FBI and ALTA data show both wire fraud and seller impersonation rising fast. Here is what verification has to look like now, and how to recover fast when it fails.
CMMC's third-party certification step is paused, not cancelled. DFARS obligations, self-assessment, and SPRS reporting still apply, and recent False Claims Act settlements show the real risk: an overstated score. Here is what aerospace suppliers should do with the extra time.
Most AI agents at mid-market companies have no owner, no access limits, and no one watching. Gartner finds only 21% of organizations are positioned to govern them. The fix is five cheap, boring steps, starting with a list of what is already connected.
A record CVE count sounds like a crisis, but FIRST's own data says otherwise: AI is finding old flaws faster, not creating new ones. And it's doing so for the good guys. The real risk is a prioritization gap, not the raw number. Here's the filter that matters, and the one question a CEO should ask Monday.
Citizen AI exploration and governance are two different organs, not opposite ends of a spectrum. Give people a license to explore, bounded by governance, plus a pipeline that promotes what works. Prohibition only breeds outlaw AI on personal accounts.
This guide helps mid-market leaders sort through AI strategy, virtual CIO, fractional CIO and interim CIO providers. The wrong match can waste a year and a six-figure budget, and the difference is almost never talent. It is fit.
AI expands your attack surface in ways traditional cybersecurity frameworks often overlook. The AI ecosystem includes far more than the models themselves, so understanding these risks is now part of enterprise risk management. Treat cybersecurity as an enabler of responsible innovation, not a cost center.
Bloomberg spent $10 million on a custom language model that a general-purpose commercial one then outperformed. Even McKinsey and Samsung could not outrun commercial AI providers in zones where those providers hold every incentive. Check where you are building against vendors who keep advancing.
Doing just enough on information security to sleep at night leaves you with minimal compliance and a stagnant posture. Treat security as a strategic advantage, a moat competitors cannot easily cross, because digital trust is becoming the primary currency.
Most AI agent governance guidance targets either heavy regulation or none at all, leaving the mid-market in the middle. If your firm has SOC-2 obligations, map your compliance perimeter, classify your processes and decide system access. Being lightly regulated is an advantage you can use.
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