Why Your Employees Are Your Biggest Cybersecurity Risk Right Now

My guest today, John Just, Global Educator with Know Be 4, has trained millions of learners across seventy thousand organizations worldwide. Real cybercrime stories. AI threats. Ransomware attacks. Social engineering tactics that are working against you right now. CHAPTERS 00:00 Know Before Platform Overview: Security Awareness Training That Actually Works 02:30 Phish Alert Button: How Employees Stop Real Attacks in Real Time 05:30 Law Firm Nearly Wires $1M to Hackers: Stopped by Training 07:00 Social Engineering Is the Top Breach Vector: Why Tech Alone Fails 09:30 Building a Security Culture: Flip the Weakest Link Myth 12:00 Psychology Behind Phishing Simulations: Why the Gotcha Approach Backfires 14:30 AI-Powered Threats: Spear Phishing Is Now Scalable and Cheap 17:00 Voice Cloning and Deepfakes: The New Face of Social Engineering 19:30 Gamifying Security: Rewards, Reporting, and Real Culture Change 21:30 Inside Man Series: Hollywood-Quality Cybersecurity Training Content 24:00 KSAT Platform and Security Culture Survey: Measure What Matters 25:30 ADA AI Orchestration Agent: Personalized Security Training at Scale 28:00 K-12 and University Cybersecurity: Protecting Schools on Shoestring Budgets 30:30 Deepfake Simulation Tool: Train Employees Using Your Own CEO's Face 33:00 How to Run Phishing Tests Without Destroying Employee Trust 35:00 KnowBefore Con, Inside Man Season 7, and What's Coming Next Hosted by David Dean Mauro — experienced former trial lawyer, AI Security Advisor, FBI InfraGard member, VP of NetGain Technologies and Author, Moving Target Trilogy Book Series (#1 Amazon Hot New Release 2026). Each episode covers real-world cybercrime, AI deception, data breaches, and the human behavior at the center of every attack. We simplify cybersecurity and AI in plain language for SMB leaders, healthcare executives, and anyone who wants to understand what is actually happening — not what the press release says. New episodes every week. No jargon without a translation. No product pitches inside the content. Subscribe so you never miss a real story behind the headlines. 🎧 Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5y4U2v5... 📖 Moving Target Trilogy — Nonfiction Cybercrime Book Series: Book 1 — Moving Target: Art of Online Camouflage: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?pa... Book 2 — Moving Target: Obedient Machine: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?pa... Book 3 — Moving Target: The Ghost and The Machine (Coming Late 2026) Special Edition Hardcover — $17.76 for subscribers (30% off) 🌐 Website: https://cybercrimejunkies.com 📰 Chaos Brief Newsletter: https://cybercrimejunkies.com 🔒 Privacy Protection Tools We Use and Recommend: Stay Safe online and remove your private data so it acn't be used against you. Try Optery: https://get.optery.com/DMauro-CyberCr... Otr Try DeleteMe and Get 20% off— 100M+ successful data removals: https://www.de33watrk.com/7BZ2W1/KMKS... Want to create? 🤖Try the best AI Voice and Translation Tool: Get ElevenLabs risk-free — best AI voice cloning and translation we have found: https://try.elevenlabs.io/gla58o32c6hq Our🎵 Music: Provided with permission by Hide Your Mamas @HideYourMamas and Zack Moscow. All rights reserved. Want to be guest? Leave us a voice message direct to our studio? Partnership inquiries? Contact Kylie Jaimeson and David Dean Mauro at https://cybercrimejunkies.com FTC Disclosure: Some links are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. David Dean Mauro | Cyber Crime Junkies | Chaos Brief | FBI InfraGard | Moving Target Trilogy | NetGain Technologies