AI, Behavioral Risk & Cyber Resilience in Banking
Cyber Resilience for Banks in an AI-Driven Threat Landscape
The New Human Layer Defense:
AI, Behavioral Risk & Cyber Resilience in Banking
A Voice Call. A Wire Request. A Decision Made in Seconds.
- June 25, 2026 | 10:00 AM CST | 45-Minute Executive Session
- Live Webinar + Interactive Q&A
AI-generated voices. Deepfake executives. Phishing emails written in your leadership's exact tone. The next attack won't trigger an alert — it will call your wire desk, and it will be convincing.
Join YASH Technologies and Choice Bank's own CISO for a raw, no-slides executive conversation on how banks are building the one defense that AI can't easily beat - your people.
WHAT TODAY’S BANKING LEADERS ARE UP AGAINST
A deepfake voice that sounds exactly like your CFO — authorizing a wire.
A phishing email written from your CEO's own public tone and cadence.
A synthetic identity that passes KYC and commits fraud three months later.
A cyber event that becomes a reputational crisis before your team even knows it started.
Vishing attacks up 449% in a single year. AI voice cloning under $50.
The challenge is no longer just detecting attacks. It's whether your people will know what to do before trust breaks down.
This session is a live executive dialogue grounded in:
- Real threat situations that Choice Bank has actually navigated
- How a sitting CISO measures and defends the human layer
- Behavioral cyber defense that goes beyond awareness training
- Resilience decisions made under real pressure
- The role of AI in both the attack — and the defense
THE CONVERSATION WILL EXPLORE
Human Behavior as a Security Layer
How Choice Bank moved beyond awareness training to a measurable human risk culture — and the single metric that changed their board conversation forever.
Operational Resilience Under Pressure
How cyber, fraud, communications, legal, and operations teams must work as one when a modern incident unfolds — and what breaks down when they don't.
AI-Driven Threat Manipulation
What deepfakes, adaptive phishing, and AI-generated fraud mean for your wire teams, operations floor, and frontline staff — from a bank that has faced it firsthand.
The New Executive Cyber Mandate
Why boards, regulators, and examiners are now asking questions that only a human risk culture can answer — and how Choice Bank navigated that exact conversation.
EXPECT A DIFFERENT KIND OF EXPERIENCE
Throughout the session, speakers will walk through:
- Real-world banking situations
- Live-response decision moments
- Executive risk perspectives
- Practical resilience strategies banks can operationalize immediately
- A real deepfake hit a real bank wire desk. Hear exactly what stopped it
- Live scenario: deepfake CEO, 6× call volume, SOC alert — 30 minutes, what’s your first call?
- Four live polls. We react to your results in real time — including how you compare to peers
SPEAKERS
Rich Rhodes
Chief Information Security Officer | Choice Bank
Rich defends a real bank every day — with real customers, real examiners, and a team that has to make the right call under pressure. He has navigated actual deepfake impersonation attempts, vendor compromise events, and the hard internal conversations about building human risk culture in a relationship-banking environment.
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Nicholas L. Paluch
Assistant Vice President | YASH Technologies
Nick has spent over a decade working with community, regional, and enterprise banks across North America — from million dollar institutions to top U.S. banks — building human risk programs that hold up under real attack conditions, not just audit cycles. He has helped financial institutions move from compliance-driven training to AI-enabled behavioral defense, and he'll tell you honestly what the banks that got it right did differently.
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Designed for:
- CISOs & CIOs
- Chief Risk Officers & Chief Fraud Officers
- Banking Operations & Technology Leaders
- Fraud & Risk Executives
- Compliance & BSA/AML Leaders
- IT & Security Professionals
- Board Risk Committee Members
- Heads of Operational & Enterprise Risk
The Human Layer Is Becoming the Primary Attack Surface in Banking
Your people are being targeted. The question is whether they'll know what to do when the call comes — because it will. Reserve your seat for this executive banking cybersecurity discussion.