The AI in Business Podcast The Biggest Cybersecurity Challenges Facing Regulated and Mid-Market Sectors - with Cody Barrow of EclecticIQ
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Dec 5, 2025 Cody Barrow, CEO of EclecticIQ and leader in cybersecurity, discusses how AI-driven analytics are transforming threat detection and response. He highlights the challenges faced by regulated and mid-market sectors, including the risk of deepfakes and supply-chain vulnerabilities. Cody stresses the importance of organizational culture in enhancing security defenses and suggests practical measures like multi-factor authentication and active monitoring. He emphasizes knowing when to partner for security, particularly when facing multiple partners or high risks.
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AI Lowers The Skill Bar For Attackers
- Agentic AI is enabling lower-skilled attackers to craft far more convincing social engineering and deepfake attacks.
- This raises new risks for authentication and identity verification across channels like FaceTime and WhatsApp.
Family Code Word For Deepfake Calls
- Cody tells a consumer-level example: use a family code word to guard against deepfake live calls.
- He notes attackers can now convincingly mimic FaceTime or WhatsApp calls to request urgent fund transfers.
Many Weak Links Create High Impact Failures
- Mid-market sectors like retail and manufacturing present broad attack surfaces with many weak supply-chain links.
- Those weak links create high-impact single points of failure, like payment systems, that can shutter revenue for days.