Social Engineering with GenAI: Deepfakes, Phishing & Defense

Explore how generative AI crafts personalized phishing emails by analyzing target data, including social media and professional networks, to imitate colleagues and urge urgent financial transfers.

Explore how deepfake technology uses generative adversarial networks to produce convincing video and audio that mimic real people, enabling social engineering and misinformation, and review case studies and detection strategies.

Learn how AI driven impersonation replicates voice and writing styles to deceive, enabling voice deepfakes and phishing, and discover security defenses such as multi factor authentication and employee training.

Explore how automated social media manipulation uses ai to create fake profiles, generate gan-generated photos, and spread misinformation at scale to influence elections.

Explore how AI-driven chatbots impersonate legitimate customer service, phish for credentials, scale attacks, and raise security challenges through realistic conversations.

Identify signs of GenAI attacks by analyzing personalized phishing content, deepfake audio or video, unusual social media engagement, urgent requests, and technical anomalies.

Apply lessons learned from GenAI social engineering: bolster security with multi-factor authentication for sensitive transactions, train employees, and deploy artificial intelligence–based continuous monitoring and anomaly detection tools.

Develop and implement a comprehensive awareness and training program covering phishing, vishing, and deep fake technology to strengthen your security posture.

Explore how technical defenses detect and prevent sophisticated attacks using MFA with Google Authenticator and Authy, AI-based anomaly detection, deepfake detection, email filtering, biometric defenses, threat intel, EDR, and IAM.

Develop and tailor security policies and procedures for generative AI through risk assessments, engage stakeholders, document clear guidelines, and train staff to address Gen I threats.

Promote vigilance and security minded behavior against GenAI threats by educating employees on phishing and deepfakes, implementing continuous training, clear policies, and a culture of reporting and verification.

Develop and maintain a robust security posture through continuous improvement strategies, including risk assessments, post-incident analyses, updated training, and proactive monitoring against evolving gen AI threats.

Generative AI drives new threats like convincing phishing and deepfakes that bypass traditional defenses. The lecture also covers AI-powered malware, IoT, cloud misconfigurations, social engineering, and supply chain risks.

Prepare for future cyber threats with genai-enabled security solutions that detect anomalies in real time and adapt to evolving attacks, while strengthening security awareness and incident response collaboration.

Explore GenAI driven social engineering threats such as phishing, deep fakes, and AI powered malware, and the defenses like AI-based anomaly detection and deep fake detection.