The CFO received the call at 3 a.m. The CEO's voice was unmistakable, the accent, the speech patterns, even the nervous throat-clearing. The $1 million transfer was authorized immediately. By morning, the truth emerged: the CEO had been asleep in London. The voice was a deepfake. The money vanished.
This scenario plays out daily across enterprises worldwide. Deepfake attacks will cost organizations $40 billion by 2027. Technology that seemed theoretical two years ago now operates at an industrial scale.
Deepfakes represent just one dimension of the emerging threat landscape. The integration of gen AI into identity systems creates attack vectors that organizations are only beginning to understand.
AI agents with broad permissions, machine identities multiplying beyond comprehension, shadow AI systems creating unauthorized accounts the tools meant to protect are becoming weapons.
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