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Mike Tyson once said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." In business, that punch usually comes in the form of a disruption you assumed you were ready for. It might be a failed backup, an unexpected outage or a security incident that exposes a weakness nobody knew existed. That's the thing about assumptions. They feel like facts right up until they're tested. Here are four that regularly catch businesses off guard. Assumption #1: 'We're backed up' Having an...

When a fire alarm goes off at a school, nobody stops to figure out what to do next. Students line up, teachers move them through the exits and everyone knows where they’re supposed to go because they’ve done it before. Your backup strategy should work the same way, but most businesses have never actually practiced their recovery. Why fire drills save lives and businesses Fire drills do more than satisfy a policy or check off a requirement. They help people get comfortable with the...

A security team can prepare for stolen credentials, poisoned packages, and vulnerable services. It can harden infrastructure and monitor logs. It can rehearse incident response. But this case exposed a harder question: what happens when the attacker is an autonomous AI agent, and the defensive tools refuse to look closely enough? According to the account described in the brief, Hugging Face faced an intrusion driven end to end by an AI agent system. The attacker did not rely on one operator...