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Diary of a CFO | Financial Strategies for Smart Business Growth

How CFOs Mitigate the $25M Deepfake Risk | Human Firewall Protocols for 2026 with Michele Novack

Diary of a CFO | Financial Strategies for Smart Business Growth · 2026-02-17 · 31 min

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This content includes a paid partnership with BetterHelp Online Counseling. Get matched with a credentialed therapist and start your growth journey today at for 10 percent off. Financial leaders are facing a new era of risk where executive identity is the most vulnerable unpatched API in the organization. This episode provides a framework for building a human firewall to combat AI driven deepfake attacks and agentic scams that target high value transactions. Learn why traditional "verify with a call" methods are now a liability and how verify to trust protocols protect the balance sheet from synthetic identity fraud. Summary: We have entered an era where seeing and hearing are no longer believing. This is the strategic blueprint for CFOs and founders who refuse to let technology outpace internal controls and choose to lead with cryptographic certainty over biological intuition.

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