90% of the World's Businesses Are SMEs and MSMEs and AI Is Reshaping Both Their Future and Their Risk
Check Point, Friday, June 26th, 2026
Check Point warns that SMEs and MSMEs are adopting AI faster than they can govern it, creating outsized cyber risk.
Check Point's David Meister argues that small and medium-sized businesses, which make up 90% of global enterprises, are deploying AI tools faster than they can secure or govern them.
The real danger, he writes, is adopting AI faster than you can govern it, leaving SMEs and MSMEs exposed to data leakage and new attack surfaces.
He recommends practical safeguards: documenting where and how AI is used, restricting AI access to sensitive data, and applying the same security scrutiny to AI tools as to new employees. The piece frames governance, not just adoption speed, as the key to managing AI risk for smaller organizations.