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Nick Dreyfus discusses how AI agents are targeting small and midsize businesses with the same attacks as Fortune 500 companies.

An AI agent is probably attacking your business right now. Not a person, a program, hitting you and 10,000 companies like you at once, millions of times a day, hunting for the easiest way in. The same attacks landing on the Fortune 500 are landing on you, the same way. The difference is they have a team watching 24/7/365. Most small and midsize businesses have Windows Defender and a hope. Host Nick Dreyfus breaks down how AI rewrote the math of getting hacked, why no company gets a pass whether you have 10 employees or 10,000, what a breach really costs, and the one move that takes you off the easy list. No hype. No vendor spin. No Silicon Valley bias. In this episode: Why AI agents now hit a million businesses at once, around the clock A real report showing 100,000+ attack attempts in one week on a company that was told it was protected Why midsize firms are often the most exposed, from stale logins to reused passwords The true cost of a breach: lost contracts, broken trust, six months to recover What enterprise-grade, 24/7/365 protection actually looks like, and how it can lower your cost per employee as you grow How the right Lloyd's of London backed cyber coverage is built to…

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