AI Security Basics for Business Teams
Learn the everyday security habits that keep company data safe when your team uses AI tools
A taste of a lesson
I got a voice message from my boss asking me to urgently pay a supplier. It sounded exactly like her. Should I worry?
Be careful. Voices can now be cloned from short recordings, so sounding right is no longer proof. The warning signs are urgency, a payment and an unusual route. Do not use any number or link from the message. Call your boss on a number you already have, or ask in person, and follow your normal payment approval process. If it turns out to be fake, report it to IT so others are warned. Quick check: what is the known channel you would use to verify a request like this at your workplace?
Written by the teacher as an example. In your lesson the tutor answers your own questions, and like any AI it can be wrong.
What you will be able to do
- Recognise what data should never go into unapproved AI tools
- Explain the risks of shadow AI tools and browser extensions
- Spot AI assisted phishing and verify unusual requests safely
- Describe prompt injection in plain terms and limit assistant access
- Know how and when to report a mistake quickly
Lesson plan
- 1 Where your data goes Understand how information pasted into AI tools can be stored and used. Start
- 2 Shadow AI and extensions See why unvetted tools and browser extensions create hidden risks. Start
- 3 Smarter scams Recognise AI assisted phishing and voice impersonation and respond safely. Start
- 4 Prompt injection in plain words Understand how hidden instructions in content can mislead assistants. Start
- 5 Accounts, outputs and sharing Protect accounts and handle AI outputs and shared links safely. Start
- 6 Reporting and team habits Build a habit of quick reporting and share a short team checklist. Start
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About this tutor
For employees, managers and small business teams who use AI assistants at work and want to avoid the common security mistakes. You do not need any technical background. You will learn how data can leak through AI tools, why unapproved 'shadow' AI use is risky, how AI makes phishing and voice scams more convincing, what prompt injection means in plain terms when assistants read emails or web pages, and how to protect accounts and share outputs safely. Each lesson ends with a simple habit you can adopt straight away. You finish with a personal checklist and a short team briefing you can share, aligned with whatever rules your organisation's IT or security team has set.
Reviews
4.7
3 ratingsSample
- Agnieszka L.Sample
Plain, practical, no scare stories. The verify through a second channel habit is now in our finance team's process.
- Malik J.Sample
The prompt injection explanation finally made sense to me. Short lessons that fit around work. Could use a printable checklist.
- Esther G.Sample
I realised I had a browser extension reading everything. Removed it and told IT. Simple course, real change in my habits.
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Risk, vendors, data and support: the unglamorous work that makes AI safe to rely on
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I teach the parts of business AI that decide whether a project survives contact with reality: data quality, vendor choices, contracts, security habits and customer support operations. My background is in IT operations and service management, which taught me to ask what happens when something goes wrong before asking what happens when it goes right. I teach with checklists, worked...
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