EP 136 Hiring the Enemy? Is Your applicant a Trojan Horse? Former CIA Operative: Nick Gicinto Explains How a Bad Hire can Literally be Hiring your Hacker
Update: 2025-07-30
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đ Top 5 Things This Podcast Unpacks
- đŠ The Rise of Fake Identities in Remote Hiring
 Nation-state actors â particularly from North Korea â are using stolen or fabricated identities to secure legitimate remote IT roles inside Western organisations, bypassing traditional recruitment filters. - đ Deepfakes and Digital Deception
 From AI-generated avatars to fake GitHub profiles and forged documentation, adversaries are creating sophisticated personas that fool even seasoned HR professionals and background checkers. - đź How Insider Threats Start at the Interview
 The episode explores how the threat doesnât walk through your front door anymore â it logs in from halfway across the world. Hiring is now a critical attack vector. - đ Why Zero Trust Must Extend Beyond Networks
 Itâs not just about access controls or segmentation â zero trust thinking needs to be embedded in people processes too, especially during recruitment and onboarding. - đŻ Real-World Case Studies of High-Stakes Infiltration
 Nick shares real examples where threat actors embedded themselves in organisations, stole cryptocurrency, accessed sensitive code, and even touched on national defense data â all under the guise of being a âremote developer.â
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BIO
Executive security leader and veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Tesla, and Uber as an insider threat, intelligence and security specialist. Successfully developed Uber, Tesla, and Chainlink Labsâ first global intelligence collections, investigations, and insider threat programs from the ground up.
Now, CISO at William Jewell College and Professor of Practice in Cybersecurity, a new major at WJC.
Security Circle âď¸ is an IFPOD production for IFPO the International Foundation of Protection Officers
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