Best Practices in AI Security & Risk
Webinar

Best Practices in AI Security & Risk

Turn your AI fears into smart business decisions.

Business owners are anxious about AI—and they should be. Being cautious about a technology you don’t fully understand isn’t a weakness; it’s the right instinct.

The problem isn’t the fear itself. The problem is that the fear is too vague to act on.

When someone asks, “Is AI secure?”, they aren’t asking a technical question; they’re expressing a feeling. To make smart business decisions, you have to turn that vague anxiety into specific, named risks. Once a risk has a shape, you can actually do something about it—whether that means building guardrails, writing a policy, or avoiding a tool entirely.

What We’ll Cover:

We will break down the actual AI security threats to your business into clear, jargon-free categories. For every risk, we will cover what it really is, the realistic consequences, and how to fix it.

  • Data Leakage: What happens when an employee pastes customer lists, contracts, or financial sheets into a free chatbot? (Who sees it, where it lives, and who gets sued).
  • Training Contamination: Is OpenAI training its models on your data? We’ll look at the hidden differences between free and paid tiers that most owners miss.
  • Accidental Destruction: Why bad prompts are increasingly deleting rows, files, or entire databases as AI gets more system access—and how to keep a “human-in-the-loop.”
  • Account & Credential Compromise: Guarding against a new attack surface, including phishing attacks targeting AI logins and malicious prompts hidden in shared documents.
  • Dependency & Outages: The hidden risk of building critical workflows around a single vendor. What happens to your business if your primary AI tool goes down for six hours?
  • Compliance & Regulations: How AI tools quietly trigger massive data disclosure problems for businesses handling HIPAA, financial, or legal data.

The Goal: You will leave this webinar able to say: “Here is the exact AI risk I was worried about, and here is the practical step I am taking to fix it.”

Event Details

Date
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Time
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Online webinar
Cost
$15.00
Hosted By
Wyoming SBDC Network
Speaker
Thayne Thatcher, Founder of IronForge Automations
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Topics
ai security ai automation ai cybersecurity

About the Speaker

IronForge Automations is a Wyoming-based AI automation consultancy that designs and implements practical, custom automation systems for traditional businesses, including manufacturers, contractors, architects, and professional services firms. IronForge's work is hands-on by design: shop floors, back offices, and operations rooms, not slide decks. Thayne is a graduate of the University of Wyoming, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and completed his Venture MBA in the fall of 2025. He approaches AI: as a business problem first and a technology problem second.

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