The AI Security Mistake SMBs Keep Making
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In this episode, I'm joined by Sebastian Abbinanti, President of the Isidore Group. We talk about why so many small and medium businesses still believe they are too small to be a target, and how that one belief leaves them wide open to ransomware and breaches. Sebastian shares why he treats cutting corners on security as a kind of malpractice for IT providers, and why an MSP should act like your in-house IT department, CIO, and CSO rather than just another vendor. We get into one of the biggest risks he sees right now: companies rushing to give tools like Copilot or Claude access to their entire SharePoint before anyone has classified the data, so AI happily surfaces the CEO's salary to a low-level employee. He explains how his team runs AI safely inside a private Azure container that stores nothing, puts gates on what junior technicians can do, and keeps a human approving every recommendation. Sebastian also shares his rule of only working with people he likes, why culture is his most valuable asset, and why he wouldn't change a thing about how he built the company.