The Federal Trade Commission has spent years providing businesses with guidance and advice concerning their security. Now, this guidance has converted into enforceable mandates. In short, your business needs to have systems and protections in place—not plans—in order to abide by last month’s executive order that focuses on the prevention of cybercrime and fraud. Let’s touch on what needs to be accomplished in order for you to do so.
You’ve probably heard a lot of password advice over the past decade, but how much of it is actually good advice that you should listen to? These days, with advanced automated threats able to crack incredibly complex passwords with ease, you can’t be too careful. You might even need to take a different approach entirely… which brings us to the OG password advice: just make it longer.
We typically hear one specific misconception more than any other: Why would a hacker care about my small operation when they could go after a Fortune 500 company? The reality is much grimmer. Cybercriminals don’t just target small businesses; they prefer them. Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) often serve as soft targets with weaker defensive perimeters and fewer dedicated security resources. For a hacker, it’s the difference between trying to crack a bank vault and walking through an unlocked screen door.
The Trojan Horse didn’t succeed because the Grecian armies broke down the walls of Troy; it succeeded because the Trojans fell for the Greek army’s trick and brought the secret war machine—with a small group of Greek soldiers—inside their walls. It was a tactically brilliant plan, and ended what was reportedly a decade-long siege in a matter of hours. Whether or not the original story is based in truth, your business is potentially in danger from a similar issue: a threat coming in on what seems to be a trustworthy package. The difference is that this time, the package is a platform or tool you’ve procured from a third-party vendor.
It’s undeniable that artificial intelligence is a big part of doing business in 2026. Given this, it is not surprising that many products are being developed to push the technology into areas of business it hasn’t touched. Today, we are going to tell you about the difference between AI models and why one man’s great idea could be the thing that set AI back.