Cybersecurity 201, Part 3: Deepfakes, Threats, and Protection Strategies
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As deepfakes and AI-enabled attacks become operational realities, organizations face unprecedented threats to reputation and trust. This panel explores synthetic media threats, detection limitations, and practical legal and technical defenses. Leading experts will share real-world examples, discuss authentication protocols, and equip in-house counsel with practical frameworks to protect against AI-driven deceptions and prepare executive leadership for crisis response.
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LockedPaola Cecchi-Dimeglio
Faculty Chair Executive Leadership Research Initiative for Women and Minorities Attorneys
Harvard Law School
Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio is a behavioral and data scientist, as well as a lawyer. As a decision science, organizational behavior and gender specialist, she is advising some of the largest for-profit and non-profit organizations in the world. By enabling organizations to tap into insights from behavioral science and related fields, she helps senior leadership make better and inclusive decisions for themselves and their companies. She works with executives from Fortune 500 firms, governments, and top professional service firms, including Magic Circle law firms and AmLaw 100. She has developed several software and SAAS tools and owns several patents.
Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio is the faculty Chair of the Executive Leadership Research Initiative for Women and Minority (ELRIWMA) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Legal Profession and affiliated faculty at Harvard Kennedy School in the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP).
Next to her academic position, she heads up one of the top niche behavioral science consulting firms on improving decision making processes in organizations to level the playing field. People Culture Drive Consulting Group consists of high level consultants sharing an extensive knowledge of applying Behavioral Science to businesses and public policy challenges, with specific expertise in change management, research, sectorial experts, design, communication, and training. Thanks to People Culture Drive Consulting Group’s unique and multi-dimensional composition, we are able to create a dedicated ad hoc team tailored to the specific needs of each project.
Her book “Diversity Dividend” is forthcoming from MIT Press. This book is based on her work with some of the world’s largest organizations and governments and shows how gentle pushes (“nudges”) and a consistent organizational process allow firms to achieve the goal of having more women and minorities occupy leadership positions. Her work illustrates how organizations can become the architects of their employees, customers, and shareholders’ decision-making. This book details many examples of how applying cutting edge research helps uncover barriers to desired behaviors and create interventions to overcome them.
With over two decades of experience, working with some of the largest organizations in the world to change behavior at scale, she has designed and tested many behavioral interventions to effectively steer decision-making for inclusive organizations. She has advised and implemented major behavior change efforts across a range of public and private organizations, services and topics, to foster better decision making, inclusive leadership, and diverse teams.
Marcia Narine Weldon
Director, Transactional Skills Program
University of Miami School of Law
Marcia Narine Weldon is an attorney, AI advisor, law professor, and former public-company Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, and divisional head of Human Resources.
Today, she serves as General Counsel to three nonprofit organizations and advises startups, including AI companies, on privacy, cybersecurity, governance, contracts, employment, and other legal risks. She is also the founder of Illuminating Wisdom, where she advises organizations and leaders on AI governance, responsible adoption, and the legal and business implications of emerging artificial intelligence.
Marcia brings an unusual perspective to AI risk because she also works directly on the development of advanced AI systems. She is a co-lead for law in the training of a frontier large language model and has trained and evaluated large language models on complex legal reasoning, judgment, and professional tasks. Her work gives her firsthand experience with model capabilities, limitations, failure modes, and the challenges organizations face when deciding how much confidence to place in AI-generated or AI-evaluated information.
A law professor for more than 15 years and a lawyer for more than three decades, Marcia has written extensively about law, governance, compliance, and technology, including a 130-page law review article examining artificial intelligence and its legal implications. She has spoken internationally on AI, cybersecurity, privacy, ethics, compliance, and emerging technology.
Marcia previously presented on cybersecurity and deepfakes at the 2024 ACC Cybersecurity Summit. She returns to the topic in 2026 at a moment when synthetic media, AI-enabled fraud, and AI-based detection have advanced significantly, raising harder questions for legal departments about authentication, privacy, corporate authority, governance, and what organizations can reasonably rely on when the technology itself cannot always provide certainty.
