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source_title: "Research: Conventional Cybersecurity Won't Protect Your AI"
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## Segment 2 — tail2

## Article 128 — a128

# Hugo Huang

**Role in the source:** sole author and voice of the research article.

**Profile.** Hugo Huang is a **Product Manager at Canonical** ([[entity-canonical]], the company behind Ubuntu) and holds an **MBA from MIT**. Writing for *Harvard Business Review*, he reports research conducted by Canonical in partnership with [[entity-google-d2|Google]] and [[entity-idc|IDC]], surveying 500 global executives and structured with the [[framework-nist-ai-rmf|NIST AI RMF]].

**Attributed contributions to this vault.**
- Central thesis quote: [[quote-infrastructure-supply-chain-problem]]
- Executive lesson on infrastructure exposure: [[quote-defenseless-applications]]
- The AI-defense paradox: [[quote-ai-defense-paradox]]
- All five claims are his: [[claim-infrastructure-over-application]], [[claim-application-defenseless-on-compromised-infra]], [[claim-conventional-tools-fail]], [[claim-hybrid-talent-shortage]], [[claim-ai-defends-ai]]
- Framework author: [[framework-four-imperatives-ai-security]]

**Enrichment grounding.** Canonical author bio / LinkedIn would serve as canonical references; his affiliation to Canonical is consistent with the research partnership described in the article.