The EU AI Act is the first comprehensive law on AI, and its lessons reach well beyond Europe. Part 1 explains what the Act requires and covers four lessons, from knowing what AI you have to making human oversight real, each backed by a real case study.

From Target and Equifax to Colonial Pipeline and Change Healthcare, the biggest breaches share the same root causes: unpatched software, missing MFA, weak vendor oversight, and untested backups. Here's how to build a security plan that closes those gaps.