Dune Security's Revolutionary Approach: AI and Cybersecurity
From Cyber Security America by Joshua R Nicholson
December 30, 2025 · 34 min · Season 2 · Episode 48
About this episode
This episode explores how Dune Security is transforming user risk management through AI in the face of evolving cyber threats.
🎙 Episode 48: AI and Cybersecurity — How Dune Security Is Reinventing User Risk Management In this episode of Cyber Security America , we explore how artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity—and why traditional security awareness training is no longer enough. I'm joined by David DellaPelle, cybersecurity leader and founder of Dune Security, to break down how AI-driven attacks like phishing, vishing, deepfakes, and social engineering are evolving faster than most security programs can handle. We discuss why 90% of breaches still start with human behavior and how Dune Security is redefining the user layer of cybersecurity with AI-powered risk quantification and remediation. 🔍 Topics covered in this episode: Why legacy security awareness training fails in an AI-driven threat landscape How attackers use GenAI, voice cloning, and deepfakes to bypass MFA The rise of multi-channel social engineering (email, SMS, voice, collaboration tools) How AI can identify high-risk users and reduce enterprise attack surface What CISOs should be doing now to prepare for AI-enabled threats The future of securing both human and AI workforces This conversation is essential listening for…
People in this episode
Host: Joshua R Nicholson
Guest: David DellaPelle
Topics covered
- AI in cybersecurity
- user risk management
- cybersecurity training
- human behavior in breaches
- AI-driven attacks
- social engineering
- risk quantification
Keywords
- cybersecurity
- AI
- phishing
- vishing
- deepfakes
- social engineering
- risk management
- CISOs
- enterprise security
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Dune Security, Cyber Security America
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