It's the Trickery While Empowering Employees and Redesigning Work for AI
SC Media, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Business Security Weekly 472: author Frank Riccardi on the psychological tricks behind hacks, plus leadership news on AI and work.
In this Business Security Weekly segment, hosts Matt Alderman and Jason Albuquerque talk with Frank Riccardi, a former chief compliance and privacy officer in health care and author of CTRL+ALT+PWN: The Hacker's Playbook (And How to Beat It).
Riccardi argues that trickery rather than technology is what gets people hacked, and explains the tactics and psychological tricks attackers use and how to stop them.
The leadership and communications segment covers CISO problems technology cannot solve, research on when authenticity undermines leadership, empowering curious employees to drive digital transformation, and why CIOs and HR leaders must redesign work for AI.