Your next CFO call might be fake

A finance employee joined a video call with the CFO and several colleagues.

After the call, he transferred $25.6 million.

The problem?

Nobody on the call was real.

For a long time, deepfakes felt like a future problem. A cybersecurity problem. Something that happened to celebrities and politicians.

That assumption is becoming expensive.

We're entering a world where seeing is no longer believing, hearing is no longer verification, and "the CEO told me to do it" is no longer evidence.

What's interesting is that the technology isn't the hardest part anymore.

The harder problem is organizational trust.

The conversation is also shifting from security to compliance.

Governments are introducing deepfake laws. Regulators are introducing AI transparency requirements. Boards are starting to ask who owns the risk.

A few years ago, companies needed policies for phishing emails.

Now they may need policies for fake executives.

What is the first business process that breaks when nobody can reliably trust a video call, voice message, or digital identity anymore?