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How to Use AI in Marketing Without Creating New Risks

AI has quickly become one of the most useful tools for marketing teams worldwide. It can brainstorm campaign ideas, rewrite awkward copy, summarize customer feedback, create images, analyze results, and turn one piece of content into several different formats. Used correctly, it can save tremendous time. Used carelessly, however, AI can expose customer information, produce inaccurate claims, or publish posts that your organization never would have approved. The goal should n

Safely using AI

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Oct 83 min read

Why Caller ID Is Not Proof of Identity

Imagine that your phone rings. The caller ID shows your company’s name and phone number. The person on the other end says they’re a coworker, knows enough about the company to sound legitimate, and needs your help accessing a sensitive record. Would you trust them? A recent cyberattack involving healthcare company Astrana Health provides a good reason to think twice about messages like this.

Cyber Compliance

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Oct 74 min read

Think Before You Click “Unsubscribe”

What happens when your inbox starts overflowing? When another unwanted email appears, you scroll straight to the bottom and click Unsubscribe. Problem solved, right? Usually. Legitimate companies must provide ways to opt out of marketing emails, and those unsubscribe links work as they’re supposed to. The problem is that cybercriminals know we’ve been trained to scroll and click on them too. They can also create a fake unsubscribe button that turns out to be just another m

Cybersecurity

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Oct 63 min read

AI Is Making Cyberattacks Faster—and Harder to Stop

Cyberattacks have always had a built-in limitation: Time. An attacker must investigate a network, find weaknesses, steal credentials, move between systems, locate valuable information, and decide what to do next. Even a highly skilled criminal can only work so fast. AI is starting to remove that limitation. A recently disclosed cyber-espionage campaign shows what that can look like. A Russian-linked attacker used AI to help build and operate phishing infrastructure, steal

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Oct 53 min read

Data Classification 101: Not All Information Is Created Equal

You probably handle dozens of different types of information every day. Some of it is as benign as an office lunch menu, while other information is more confidential, like a customer spreadsheet or an internal presentation. Sometimes it’s as sensitive as a customer’s or employee’s Social Security number. They’re all “data,” but they certainly shouldn’t all be treated the same way. That’s the idea behind data classification.

Cyber Compliance

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Oct 54 min read