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What happens when college athletes suddenly become brands… and targets?

In this episode of Simplifying Cyber, we sit down with sports law expert Matt Banker to unpack the fast-moving world of NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) and the cybersecurity risks hiding beneath the surface.

From hacked athlete data and fake endorsement deals to deepfakes, shady agents, and social engineering scams, we explore how money in college sports is creating a whole new attack surface. 💸

We also dig into:

• Real-world cases of data breaches in college athletics
• How third-party tools and “shadow tech” are quietly increasing risk
• The role of parents, athletes, and schools in preventing fraud
• Why NIL deals are as much about contracts and compliance as they are about cyber awareness

Whether you’re in cybersecurity, college athletics, or just curious how AI and money are reshaping sports, this episode connects the dots in a way you won’t hear anywhere else.

🎧 Listen now and learn how to stay one step ahead—on and off the field.

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The fastest way to turn a cyber incident into a business disaster isn’t ransomware, it’s confusion. We sit down with Violet Sullivan, AVP and Cyber Solutions Team Lead at Crum & Forster, who has worked across cyber law, breach notification, digital forensics and incident response, and now cyber insurance. That vantage point lets her translate what each group needs when pressure is high and everyone is speaking a different language.

We get practical about the moments that create real-world chaos: overlapping roles like “breach coach,” acronyms that make leaders freeze, and the dangerous assumption that someone else already handled comms or law enforcement outreach. Violet breaks down a cleaner way to run the response by focusing on function: legal help, technical help, and operational help. We also talk about why crisis communications deserves a seat at the table early, how PR teams organize messaging by audience, and how to avoid the cleanup phase that happens when people speak too soon.

Then we zoom out to the contract that quietly shapes the whole response: cyber insurance. Violet explains why insurance is not “admitting defeat,” but a risk transfer mechanism that can fund response vendors and influence decisions when you cannot afford mistakes. We also tackle emerging AI risks, including more believable social engineering and the legal concern that sharing privileged legal advice with AI tools may put attorney-client privilege at risk.

If you want clearer incident response planning, better tabletop exercises, and fewer “who has the ball?” moments, hit play. Subscribe, share this with your security or legal team, and leave a review with the one part of your response plan you want to simplify next.

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When a romance fraud expert, bestselling author, and professional scam-troll meets two cybersecurity pros obsessed with deepfakes and social engineering, you get one of the most eye‑opening – and strangely funny – episodes we’ve ever recorded.

In this episode of Simplifying Cyber, British author Becky Holmes (aka “Death to Spinach” and author of Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You) joins Aaron Pritz and Cody Rivers to unpack the murky world of online romance fraud, celebrity imposters, and how emerging AI and deepfake tech are supercharging social engineering.

We cover:

How Becky accidentally fell into the world of romance scams during lockdown by trolling “handsome soldiers” in her DMs

Why smart, successful, emotionally stable people still fall for romance fraud — and why the “it could never be me” mindset is so dangerous

The brutal impact of victim blaming and victim shaming in romance scams, and how media narratives make reporting even harder

What really happens behind celebrity scams (including fake Keanu Reeves, “meet and greet” offers, and wild opening lines from fraudsters)

How scammers use emotional hot states, urgency, fear, and love to bypass even strong rational defenses

Why shame is one of the most powerful tools in a scammer’s arsenal — in both personal and corporate cyber attacks

The parallels between romance fraud and corporate phishing, smishing, and business email compromise (BEC)

How security teams often “tech-splain” and bury the message in jargon normal people will never read

Why user awareness, empathy, and culture are just as critical as firewalls and MFA

Then it gets real. Aaron and Cody put Becky in the middle of a live deepfake and AI demo using publicly available tools — starting with a fake kidnapping video, escalating into nightmare spinach scenarios (she really hates spinach), and ending in her “dream” deepfake wedding. Along the way, they show how shockingly easy it is to:

Deepfake a real person from a single photo

Clone a voice with just a few seconds of audio

Create emotionally manipulative video pleas that could fool friends, parents, or grandparents.

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