WORKSHOP 2 – Deepfakes, Deception, and Dollars: When Trust Becomes Your Greatest Vulnerability

Imagine your CFO joins a video call with what looks like the company’s divisional president—followed by the CEO, live on camera, confirming a major wire transfer. Except…none of them were real. Welcome to the new frontier of deepfake-driven cybercrime.

In this eye-opening session, senior cybersecurity leaders will dissect real-world deepfake attacks targeting multinational corporations, highlighting how visual deception is rapidly evolving beyond email scams. We’ll explore critical lessons in securing executive communications, the role of “safe words” and trust protocols, and the cultural complexities that arise when operating across global teams with different risk perceptions and communication norms.

Discussion points include:

How deepfake technology is weaponizing trust at the executive level.
Why traditional identity verification methods are no longer enough.
How to educate and partner with innovative startups to build new defenses.
The challenge of deploying consistent cybersecurity behaviors across multi-national, multicultural teams.
Actionable strategies for hardening executive communications—including when and how to introduce “safe word” protocols.
In an era where seeing is no longer believing, cybersecurity leaders must rethink how trust is established, verified, and protected—before deepfake deception becomes the next multimillion-dollar breach.