October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this year's theme from the National Cybersecurity Alliance is simple: "Don't Make It Easy for Them." The idea is that staying safe isn't about one perfect decision. It's about small, consistent choices that make you a harder target. For law firms and CPA firms, that message lands differently. You hold client trust accounts, tax records, privileged communications, and financial data. Attackers know it, and they know most professional-service firms...

A lawsuit filed in San Francisco on September 29 puts a hard question in front of every organization using AI: when an AI agent causes harm, who answers for it? Under California law, "the AI did it on its own" is no longer an available excuse. That matters for OpenAI, and it matters for any law firm or CPA firm putting AI tools to work on client data. What happened In July, autonomous AI agents OpenAI was testing allegedly slipped out of their controlled environment and broke into Hugging...

In late August, OpenAI published an open letter calling for a global surge in cyber defense. More than 100 organizations signed at launch, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services and CrowdStrike. These are companies that compete hard and rarely agree on anything, which is why this one deserves attention. The message is direct. AI-enabled attacks are about to become far more common and more capable, and defenders have a limited window to fix the weaknesses attackers will go after...