Deepfake: Empowering Your Users to Recognize What AI Can Fake

#1721421: Deepfake: Empowering Your Users to Recognize What AI Can Fake - Feb 17, 2026

Description:	Your users are being targeted right now. Deepfake attacks happen every few minutes, and nearly half of all organizations have already been hit. When a deepfake lands in your user’s inbox, will they spot it or fall for it? In this session, Perry Carpenter, Chief Human Risk Management Strategist, and Chris Littlefield, Product Manager, pull back the curtain on the next era of social engineering. Deepfakes, AI agents, and synthetic narratives are reshaping the threat landscape and traditional training no longer prepares users for attacks that feel real. You’ll learn how to build a workforce that stays calm, curious, and grounded in truth, even when a scam sounds exactly like someone they trust. You'll explore: How attackers use plausibility, framing, and myth-direction to make AI-generated impersonations feel instantly legitimate Recent deepfake and voice-clone incidents that expose where human judgment faltered—and how better cognitive defenses would have changed the outcome Training methods that build narrative awareness and emotional self-regulation, preventing both overreaction and paralysis Practical verification rituals your workforce can adopt to stay resilient when an email sounds right, a voice sounds familiar, or a video “looks close enough.” NEW! KnowBe4's Deepfake Training Content shows how to create a custom deepfake training experience featuring your own leaders to transform abstract risk into unforgettable learning moments You’ll leave the webinar with the strategy and tools to help employees recognize and validate AI-driven manipulation, plus measurable ways to demonstrate to leadership how you can reduce real-world deepfake risks. Speakers: Perry Carpenter, Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer, KnowBe4 Perry Carpenter is a multi-award-winning author, podcaster, and speaker, with over two decades in cybersecurity, focusing on how cybercriminals exploit human behavior. As the Chief Human Risk Management Strategist at KnowBe4, Perry helps build robust human-centric defenses against social engineering-based threats. His latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Wiley: Oct 2024), explores AI's role in deception. Perry also hosts the award-winning podcasts 8th Layer Insights and Digital Folklore. Chris Littlefield, Product Manager, KnowBe4 Chris Littlefield is a product management leader and a key figure on the KnowBe4 Product team. His team is dedicated to launching innovative products and features that delight customers. During his nine years at KnowBe4, Chris has driven initiatives in user identity and provisioning, simulated phishing, and human risk monitoring. Prior to his role as a Product Manager, Chris began his KnowBe4 career in Advanced Support. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University and has over 15 years of experience in the IT and cybersecurity industries. Moderator: Peter Krass, Moderator, Dark Reading Peter Krass is a contributing editor to UBM. A long-time business and technology journalist, Peter has previously held senior editorial positions with Inc., InformationWeek, Smart Enterprise, Planet IT, TechBuilder.com and BusinessWeek newsletters. He’s also written for publications and sites that include Optimize, CFO, CSC World, On Wall Street and Insurance Networking News.
More info:	https://dr-resources.darkreading.com/free/w_knoc104/

Description:

Your users are being targeted right now. Deepfake attacks happen every few minutes, and nearly half of all organizations have already been hit. When a deepfake lands in your user’s inbox, will they spot it or fall for it?

In this session, Perry Carpenter, Chief Human Risk Management Strategist, and Chris Littlefield, Product Manager, pull back the curtain on the next era of social engineering. Deepfakes, AI agents, and synthetic narratives are reshaping the threat landscape and traditional training no longer prepares users for attacks that feel real. You’ll learn how to build a workforce that stays calm, curious, and grounded in truth, even when a scam sounds exactly like someone they trust.

You'll explore:

How attackers use plausibility, framing, and myth-direction to make AI-generated impersonations feel instantly legitimate
Recent deepfake and voice-clone incidents that expose where human judgment faltered—and how better cognitive defenses would have changed the outcome
Training methods that build narrative awareness and emotional self-regulation, preventing both overreaction and paralysis
Practical verification rituals your workforce can adopt to stay resilient when an email sounds right, a voice sounds familiar, or a video “looks close enough.”
NEW! KnowBe4's Deepfake Training Content shows how to create a custom deepfake training experience featuring your own leaders to transform abstract risk into unforgettable learning moments
You’ll leave the webinar with the strategy and tools to help employees recognize and validate AI-driven manipulation, plus measurable ways to demonstrate to leadership how you can reduce real-world deepfake risks.

Speakers:
Perry Carpenter, Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer, KnowBe4
Perry Carpenter is a multi-award-winning author, podcaster, and speaker, with over two decades in cybersecurity, focusing on how cybercriminals exploit human behavior. As the Chief Human Risk Management Strategist at KnowBe4, Perry helps build robust human-centric defenses against social engineering-based threats. His latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Wiley: Oct 2024), explores AI's role in deception. Perry also hosts the award-winning podcasts 8th Layer Insights and Digital Folklore.

Chris Littlefield, Product Manager, KnowBe4
Chris Littlefield is a product management leader and a key figure on the KnowBe4 Product team. His team is dedicated to launching innovative products and features that delight customers. During his nine years at KnowBe4, Chris has driven initiatives in user identity and provisioning, simulated phishing, and human risk monitoring. Prior to his role as a Product Manager, Chris began his KnowBe4 career in Advanced Support. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University and has over 15 years of experience in the IT and cybersecurity industries.

Moderator:
Peter Krass, Moderator, Dark Reading
Peter Krass is a contributing editor to UBM. A long-time business and technology journalist, Peter has previously held senior editorial positions with Inc., InformationWeek, Smart Enterprise, Planet IT, TechBuilder.com and BusinessWeek newsletters. He’s also written for publications and sites that include Optimize, CFO, CSC World, On Wall Street and Insurance Networking News.

More info:

https://dr-resources.darkreading.com/free/w_knoc104/

Date added	Jan. 24, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
Source	Dark Reading
Subjects	Deepfakes / Deep fakes PodCasts / Webcast / Webinar / eSummit / Virtual Event etc. Security Management/Strategic Security/ROI/ROSI - CISO and Higher Level
Venue	Feb. 17, 2026, midnight - Feb. 17, 2026, midnight