Bobby Ford is the Chief Strategy and Experience Officer at Doppel, an AI-native social engineering defense platform backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and a16z. A globally recognized cybersecurity leader, Bobby has nearly 30 years of experience and has served as CISO for Abbott Laboratories, Unilever, Exelis, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Since joining Doppel in July, Bobby has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategy during a defining period of expansion and innovation.
Multi-Channel Impersonation: Why Legacy Controls Are Failing – Bobby Ford – RSAC26 #3
As social engineering expands past just email to include text messages, chat apps, social platforms, and live video calls, traditional point solutions are struggling to keep up. In this segment, Bobby Ford explains how AI-powered impersonation and deepfake-enabled campaigns are exposing critical gaps in legacy defenses, and why organizations must evolve toward a unified social engineering defense platform that connects Digital Risk Management and Human Risk Management. He’ll outline what modern security programs need: real-time cross-channel visibility, behavior-driven detection, and strategies designed around how people actually communicate and make decisions today. Segment Resources: https...
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As social engineering expands past just email to include text messages, chat apps, social platforms, and live video calls, traditional point solutions are struggling to keep up. In this segment, Bobby Ford explains how AI-powered impersonation and deepfake-enabled campaigns are exposing critical gaps in legacy defenses, and why organizations must evolve toward a unified social engineering defense platform that connects Digital Risk Management and Human Risk Management. He’ll outline what modern security programs need: real-time cross-channel visibility, behavior-driven detection, and strategies designed around how people actually communicate and make decisions today.Segment Resources:https://www.doppel.com/blog/new-hrm-capabilities-built-how-attacks-actually-happen
https://www.doppel.com/blog/why-every-brand-needs-impersonation-attack-response-plan
https://www.doppel.com/product/simulation
https://www.doppel.com/product/brand-protection
https://www.doppel.com/product/security-awareness-trainingVisit https://securityweekly.com/doppelrsac to learn how Doppel helps organizations defend against AI-powered impersonation, phishing, and multi-channel social engineering threats with a modern Human Risk Management approach.Read the interview summary from SC Media here: Doppel’s Bobby Ford on why legacy controls are failing
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