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

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Published: 2026-02-17T12:53:31+00:00
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## Resource

This content includes a paid partnership with BetterHelp Online Counseling. Get matched with a credentialed therapist and start your growth journey today at https://betterhelp.com/kingdems 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. Key Insights: How the human firewall framework creates a behavioral bypass that outlasts traditional software based security controls Why the three channel rule requiring verification across voice video and text is the only way to disrupt a synthetic actor in real time Ways agentic scams use AI to negotiate and wait for the right moment to strike The psychological reason high performers are vulnerable to linguistic rewiring that hijacks the prefrontal cortex during high pressure scenarios Steps for implementing a proof of life protocol to prevent million dollar wire fraud and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks Why the liar's dividend creates a nightmare for governance by allowing leaders to deny reality as a deepfake How to establish a safe word for direct reports as a critical non-digital verification phrase for emergency transactions The shift fro…

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