23/10/2026
AI can help your business, but it can help cyber criminals too.
While being a useful business tool, AI can help attackers research potential victims, create convincing messages and make existing cyber-attacks quicker and more effective.
That means the old ways of spotting a scam are becoming less useful; a well-written email can still be a scam, a familiar logo can still be fake and a message that sounds exactly like your colleague can still be malicious. However, the best defence is very simple and hasn't changed:
Pause🫸🏼. Check☑️. Think before you act🤔.
If you use AI tools, it is also important to be wary about the information you're giving them. It’s obvious to most but sensitive personal information, confidential business data and passwords should never simply be pasted into an AI tool without considering how that information is being handled.
At CBS we are always looking for ways to help and advise our customers and we believe that cyber security is so important that we have dedicated a whole month to talking about it.
We have also produced a useful Cyber Security article which covers a wide range of ways to spot and avoid the impact of a cyber attack in businesses and schools. Follow the link below to read it:
https://commercebusinesssystems.co.uk/cyber-security-is-everyones-business/