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Best AI security tools for small and mid-sized businesses in 2026

The best AI security tools for small and mid-sized businesses do more than detect risky AI use: they show which generative AI tools employees actually use, they let you govern which AI apps are allowed, monitored or blocked, they stop sensitive data from leaving in a prompt, and they defend against harmful prompts, including prompt injection. Most organizations now run AI without that visibility or control. AI use has moved into the mainstream.

Non-Technical? You Can Still Succeed in Cybersecurity #cybersecurity #beginners #nontechnical

Cybersecurity for beginners does not require you to arrive with years of technical experience. Feeling like an outsider, learning unfamiliar terminology and building knowledge as you go are all part of developing the skills needed to work in information security.

Microsoft Entra to Retire SMS & Voice MFA by 2027: What Organizations Need to Know

Microsoft is making a major change to the authentication experience in Microsoft Entra. The company has announced the retirement of Microsoft-provided SMS and Voice MFA, with passkeys set to become the default sign-in method. This shift reflects Microsoft's broader push toward phishing-resistant authentication as organizations face increasingly sophisticated phishing, social engineering, and AI-driven attacks.

LMS Single Sign-On (SSO): Secure Access to Learning Management Systems

Every LMS rollout starts the same way: pick a platform, upload the courses, get people logged in, move on. Then a second platform gets added. Then a certificate program. Then a separate tool for employee onboarding. Each one arrives with its own login screen, and everyone downstream, students, instructors, IT, ends up managing another password. Single sign-on solution for LMS fixes that.

Does Cyber Insurance Cover AI Incidents?

The answer changed on a specific date. Until the start of 2026, most organizations were covered for AI losses by silence rather than by grant, because policies neither affirmed nor excluded AI and the question would have been argued at claim time. On January 1, 2026 the standard forms organization introduced generative AI exclusion endorsements for commercial general liability, and carriers began attaching them at renewal. ‍

A Prompt Is Not a Boundary: Lessons From the AI Eval Incidents

Three organizations had their production systems compromised by an AI model in April, and found out in late July when the model's developer called them. None of them had detected the activity. One was a security company whose own package scanner was the entry point. ‍ Anthropic published that account on July 30, nine days after OpenAI disclosed a related incident of its own.

The work runs itself with Jeff Wang from Cognition, Richard Liu from Anthropic | Zero-Shot Learning

While AI agents are already capable of writing and shipping code that works, standard operating procedure still requires human oversight and review. Cognition President of New Enterprise Jeff Wang is building a future where that’s no longer the case. In this episode, Jeff joins 1Password CTO Nancy Wang and special guest co-host Richard Liu, Head of API Products at Anthropic, for a conversation on cloud-based agents and how their ability to prove their own work could make human code reviews obsolete.

AI can think. AI can act. Secure the entire AI workflow.

Securing AI systems today means securing the whole AI process, from access, to prompt, to action. Explore A10's AI security offering, which ties the capabilities of AI Firewall, MCP discovery/protection, AI gateway, and ThreatX, all together into one cohesive end-to-end AI security solution.

2026 IT Reality Check: Navigating Market Shifts, Infrastructure Changes & Cyber Threats

The IT landscape is changing fast. In this podcast, 11:11 Systems explores the critical data and trends shaping the future of IT infrastructure and security in 2026. Join Jason Buffington, Principal Analyst and Founder of DataProtectionMatters.com, Kaushik Ray, Chief Experience Officer at 11:11 Systems, and Laura Shafer, VP of Product Marketing at 11:11 Systems, as they discuss: If your team is evaluating platform changes, strengthening cyber resilience, or planning for the year ahead, this session offers practical insights to help you modernize, protect, and manage your environment.