The Current Cybersecurity Landscape
The threats organizations face today are not the same threats employees were trained to recognize five years ago. Artificial intelligence has made cybercrime faster, cheaper, and more convincing. Phishing messages are more polished, voices can be cloned, video can be manipulated, and criminals can impersonate trusted people and organizations with remarkable accuracy.
But while the technology has changed, the criminal’s objective often has not. They still need to deceive someone into clicking a link, revealing information, sending money, approving a transaction, or trusting the wrong person.
Former FBI Special Agent Jeff Lanza gives audiences a clear, non-technical look at the current cybersecurity landscape—what’s changing, what isn’t, and what individuals and organizations can do to stay safer.
Jeff continually updates this presentation to reflect emerging threats and recent real-world cases. Using compelling stories, appropriate humor, and practical advice, he turns a subject that can seem complicated and intimidating into a fast-paced presentation audiences can understand, remember, and put into practice.
The program can be customized for conferences, association meetings, corporate events, client events, employee programs, and executive audiences.
Why This Topic Matters Right Now
Cybercrime is constantly evolving, and artificial intelligence is accelerating that evolution.
Generative AI can help criminals create more convincing phishing messages, impersonate executives and trusted contacts, clone voices, create deepfake video, and scale scams more efficiently than ever before.
At the same time, many successful cyberattacks still depend on something criminals have exploited for generations: human behavior.
Urgency. Fear. Authority. Curiosity. Trust.
Jeff helps audiences understand how criminals combine new technology with these proven methods of manipulation—and why recognizing the human side of cybercrime is just as important as understanding the technology.
Most importantly, this presentation is not designed to frighten audiences. It gives them practical ways to recognize suspicious activity, slow down at critical moments, verify before they trust, and make themselves and their organizations more difficult targets.
What this Keynote Covers
- How AI is changing cybercrime — phishing, voice cloning, deepfakes, and impersonation scams that are becoming increasingly convincing.
- How modern cyberattacks really happen — including business email compromise, ransomware, account takeover, and social engineering.
- Why criminals target people, not just technology — and how urgency, fear, authority, and trust are used to manipulate victims.
- The evolution of ransomware — how ransomware has grown into an organized criminal business and why organizations of every size can be targeted.
- What’s changed—and what hasn’t — how technology and AI have improved the criminal’s tools while many of the most effective defenses remain surprisingly simple.
- .What you can do about it — practical steps individuals, employees, and organizations can use immediately to reduce their risk without requiring technical expertise or expensive new software.
Who This Keynote Is For
The Current Cybersecurity Landscape is designed for non-technical audiences who need to understand today’s cyber threats without getting lost in technical jargon.
The presentation can be customized for corporate conferences, association meetings, financial services organizations, client events, employee programs, educational institutions, government organizations, and executive leadership meetings.
Depending on the audience, Jeff can emphasize the cybercrime issues most relevant to that organization or industry and incorporate timely examples and case studies.
The presentation also pairs naturally with Jeff’s more focused programs on Cybercrime & Identity Theft Prevention and Cybercrime Prevention for Businesses.
Why Jeff Lanza
Jeff Lanza spent more than 20 years as an FBI Special Agent investigating cybercrime, fraud, organized crime, and other complex criminal activity.
Today, he combines that firsthand investigative experience with current real-world cybercrime cases to explain not only what criminals are doing, but why their tactics work—and how people can protect themselves.
Jeff has delivered more than 1,000 presentations and has lectured at Harvard and Princeton Universities. His clients have included major corporations, financial institutions, government organizations, associations, and educational institutions.
What sets Jeff apart is his ability to make cybersecurity understandable and memorable. His presentations combine fascinating stories, practical information, audience interaction, and just the right amount of humor.
The result is a cybersecurity presentation that doesn’t simply describe the threat—it gives audiences practical information they can use immediately.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this presentation technical?
No. Jeff specializes in making cybersecurity understandable to non-technical audiences. The focus is on how cybercrime happens, how criminals manipulate their targets, how today’s threats are evolving, and what people can do to protect themselves.
How does this differ from Jeff’s other cybersecurity presentations?
This presentation provides a big-picture look at the current cybersecurity landscape and the major trends changing cybercrime today. Jeff’s other programs can go deeper into areas such as personal identity theft prevention or cybersecurity specifically for businesses. Every presentation can also be customized based on the audience and the goals of the event.
Does Jeff cover artificial intelligence and deepfakes?
Yes. AI-enabled fraud is an increasingly important part of Jeff’s presentations. He explains how criminals are using generative AI, voice cloning, deepfake technology, and AI-assisted phishing and impersonation—and provides practical advice for recognizing and responding to these threats.
Can the presentation be customized for our industry or audience?
Yes. Jeff regularly customizes his presentations based on the audience, industry, and event objectives. Examples and case studies can be tailored for financial services, businesses, government organizations, associations, educational institutions, and other audiences.
Is the presentation appropriate for a client event or employee webinar?
Yes. The program can be delivered as an in-person keynote, conference session, client event, employee presentation, executive briefing, or live webinar.
How current is the material?
Cybercrime changes quickly, so Jeff continually updates his presentations to incorporate emerging threats, recent cases, and changes in the way criminals are using technology. The goal is to give audiences an understanding of the threats they are facing today—not simply the threats of several years ago.