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Your biggest cybersecurity risk is also your best defense with Kam Karaji

Infinum Season 1 Episode 25

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95% of cybersecurity breaches involve a human factor. It’s why many organizations build security programs around minimizing human error, adding more controls, more monitoring, and more restrictions.

Kam Karaji, the NFL’s Director of Cybersecurity & Risk Management, believes that’s the wrong starting point.

Drawing on his experience as both a cybersecurity leader and a former police commander and firearms instructor, Kam argues that exceptional security begins with an exceptional understanding of people. Some individuals pose risk; others are your biggest advocates. The difference lies in how organizations train, support, and empower them.

At the NFL, employees aren’t treated as the weakest link; they’re the human firewall. Security awareness is tailored to each person’s role, access, and exposure to risk, so the people protecting the organization’s most valuable assets receive the guidance they need to succeed.

In this episode of Delivered, Kam shares how he protects one of the world’s most high-profile global brands against both external and insider threats, the lessons he brought into cybersecurity from law enforcement, and the cybersecurity risks most businesses today are still underestimating.

Key learnings:

  • Learn how the NFL protects against cyber threats from outside and within
  • Understand what organizations get wrong when designing security programs around human behavior
  • Explore the leadership lessons Kam carried from law enforcement into modern cyber risk management
  • Find out who is winning the AI arms race, attackers or defenders
  • Discover why quantum computing is the next frontier of cybersecurity

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