About this Event
Date: November 14, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3C (see map below)
Workshop: Fake It to Catch It: Building Deepfakes So You Can Spot Them
Trainer : James McQuiggan
CPEs: 4
Continental breakfast will be provided and there is free parking on site. Refer to the map below - Full Sail Building 3 B/C. (https://go.fullsail.edu/assets/ext/orientation-location-map.pdf)
We look forward to seeing you there for an informative and interesting workshop!
This meeting will count towards 4 CPE's!
Training Workshop:
Fake It to Catch It: Building Deepfakes So You Can Spot Them
Abstract:
Seeing is no longer believing, and hearing isn’t either. In this four-hour, hands-on workshop, you will build a video deepfake, using the same kinds of open-source and commercial-grade tools a real attacker would use. You’ll retrieve source footage of a target and clone their voice from a short sample. You’ll sync that voice to their face and generate brand-new talking video from a single still photo. Each step saves a file that feeds the next part of the process.
By the end, you’ll have built the full fabrication chain: a synthetic face and a synthetic voice, synced together. Then you’ll watch a live, real-time face swap on a video call, the same class of attack that cost one multinational firm roughly $25 million.
Building it is how you learn where it breaks. At each stage, you’ll look for the audio and visual tells that detection depends on, and you’ll see why a detector alone won’t save you. We finish by turning what you built into a scoped, authorized social-engineering test, and into the verification controls that can stop these attacks.
Walk out with your own deepfake artifacts, a working cloud toolchain you can reuse, and first-hand evidence for your leadership, not vendor projections.
Bio:
James McQuiggan is the founder and Advisory CISO of Apparent Security, with more than 25 years in cybersecurity. He has built dozens of synthetic media artifacts across video, audio, and images, including clips convincing enough to make Alethe Denis, Mishaal Khan, and John Strand look like old friends of his. He teaches defenders where synthetic media breaks and which verification controls hold. Previously CISO Advisor at KnowBe4 and a senior cybersecurity leader at Siemens (Energy and Wind), he is part-time faculty at Full Sail University and volunteers with ISC2 as Co-chair of the North American Region Advisory Council.
James also co-authored a book of dad jokes (A Megabyt Of Jokes). If you already have a copy of James's book, bring it and he will gladly autograph it.
If you don't have his book yet, you can get one ahead of time on Amazon to bring.
https://www.amazon.com/Megabyte-Jokes-Mishaal-Khan/dp/B0H8NNPTW5/
Event venue & nearby stays
Full Sail University, 175 University Park Dr, Winter Park, United States
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