A Cybersecurity Awareness Month Educational Webinar

The AI Agents are Already Inside

Guardrails Before the Gas Pedal for Small Business AI Adoption

AI is no longer just answering questions. It's drafting emails, connecting to business systems, and increasingly taking action on its own. And in many small businesses, employees are already using AI tools that leadership never approved or even knows about. That's shadow AI. As AI agents become part of everyday work, the question isn't whether your business will use AI — it's whether you'll have guardrails in place before it matters.

Date: Thursday - October 22, 2026

Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PT (2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET)

Limited to 500 live attendees

Doors close in

66%

of employees use AI tools IT hasn't approved

4x

rise in agent-driven data exposure in 12 months

30 days

Plan to a defensible AI guardrail baseline

What we'll cover

From shadow AI to a plan you can start next week

A no-fluff, 90-minute session built for owners and leaders of small businesses and professional service firms. No technical background required — this is an educational session, not a sales pitch.

What shadow AI is — and how to find it

What shadow AI is, how it creeps into everyday work, and how to find out if it's already running inside your business.

Agentic AI vs. chatbots

How agentic AI differs from chatbots, why that changes your risk profile, and what it means when AI starts taking action on its own.

Essential guardrails before you expand

The essential guardrails to put in place before expanding AI use — vendor-neutral, plain-English, and sized for a small business.

Simple AI governance, no compliance team

How to build simple AI governance without a compliance department, so one-person IT and ops teams can still stay in control.

Your first-steps plan

A practical first-steps plan you can start the following week — concrete actions, no enterprise budget required.

You'll walk away with

Practical assets, not just slides

A Shadow AI & Agent Readiness Checklist to assess where your business stands today

AI acceptable-use & guardrail (AI AUP) policy template

Live Q&A with Eric Stefanik and Terri Denison

On-demand replay for all registrants

Your Speakers

Two practitioners, one plain-English session

Eric Stefanik, cybersecurity expert and founder of Elliptic Systems, and Terri Denison, AI consultant and former small business advisor with the SBA, team up for a practical 90 minutes built for owners and leaders of small businesses and professional service firms.

Eric Stefanik

Founder, CEO & President · Elliptic Systems Corporation

Eric Stefanik is a leading cybersecurity expert and bestselling author who has guided organizations of every size through the shift to AI and emerging technology. As Founder, CEO & President of Elliptic Systems Corporation, he helps small businesses adopt powerful new tools without handing over the keys to their data.

Terri Denison

CEO · AI Clear Path, LLC · AI Consultant

Terri Denison is an AI consultant and former small business advisor for over 4 decades with the Small Business Administration (SBA). She partners with owners and leaders of small businesses and professional service firms to adopt AI with confidence—translating technical risk into plain-English decisions.

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Join us live on October 22 or get the on-demand replay. Every attendee receives a Shadow AI & Agent Readiness Checklist to assess where their business stands today.

We never share your details. Ever.

No sales pitch — just the framework and the checklist.

Live Q&A with Eric Stefanik and Terri Denison.