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source_title: "Research: Conventional Cybersecurity Won't Protect Your AI"
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/ts-research-conventional-cybersecurity-wont-protect-your-ai"
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# Canonical

**Role in the source:** the author's company and the lead research organization. Canonical partnered with [[entity-google-d2|Google]] and [[entity-idc|IDC]] to survey **500 global executives** on AI security practices and blind spots — the empirical backbone for [[claim-infrastructure-over-application]].

**Enrichment grounding.** Canonical is the company behind **Ubuntu**. Official site: `https://canonical.com`. The article's author, [[entity-hugo-huang|Hugo Huang]], is a Product Manager there.