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Welcome back to the Small Business Daily Podcast. Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
Watch out – even small businesses are now facing threats from deepfake attacks
By Craig Hale | September 24, 2025
Gartner reports that 62% of organizations encountered AI-driven attacks in the past year, with deepfake audio (44%) and video (36%) leading the surge and prompt-injection attacks also gaining traction. The takeaway: deepfakes have gone mainstream, so businesses should double down on zero-trust practices, voice/identity verification, and securing genAI apps against prompt abuse.
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How one bad password ended a 158-year-old business
By Not specified | September 24, 2025
A single weak password let the Akira ransomware group cripple UK logistics firm KNP, halting 500 trucks, destroying backups, and costing 700 jobs—proof that basic credential hygiene remains existential. The article underscores essentials like breached-password blocking, MFA, least-privilege access, and tested recovery plans to prevent one-password disasters.
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5 ChatGPT prompts to scale your company without hiring anyone
By Jodie Cook | September 24, 2025
Instead of adding headcount, this piece outlines five prompts to map repeatable processes, automate workflows, enable client self-service, structure weekly delegation, and design a solo growth plan. The goal is leverage over layers—using AI to protect margins and scale impact without payroll bloat.
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Apiiro expands AI bill of materials to govern agents and MCP servers
By Duncan Riley | September 24, 2025
Apiiro now inventories AI agents, frameworks, datasets, artifacts, secrets, and MCP servers, mapping them to APIs, containers, and sensitive data to turn scattered findings into risk insights. With CMDB integration and developer-in-PR remediation, the update helps teams govern AI in production without drowning in alerts.
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This is why your company is transforming into an autonomous machine
By Vala Afshar (with Henry King, co-author) | September 24, 2025
The next wave of competitiveness is the agentic enterprise—AI agents that sense, decide, and act across products, factories, and service operations. With predictions that 50% of service cases will be resolved by AI by 2027 and one-third of genAI interactions will be autonomous by 2028, leaders must balance experimentation with governance to harness this shift.
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Automatically secure: how we upgraded 6,000,000 domains by default to get ready for the quantum future
By Alex Krivit, Suleman Ahmad, Yawar Jamal | September 24, 2025
Cloudflare’s Automatic SSL/TLS has quietly moved millions of domains to stronger defaults (including more TLS 1.3), cutting unencrypted origin connections by 7–8% and paving the way for post-quantum cryptography. The roadmap includes automatic PQC handshakes where supported, helping small businesses inherit modern encryption without lifting a finger.
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Wrapping up
From deepfake scams and password pitfalls to autonomous agents, AI is reshaping both the threat landscape and the growth playbook for small businesses. The headlines point to a simple mandate: secure the basics (identity, governance, encryption) while using automation and AI to amplify outcomes without adding overhead. Build smarter, defend better, and let technology be the multiplier—not the risk.
