Kinfolk LLC employee C. Maxine wrapped up The Deepfake Summit.

Kinfolk LLC is a women- and Asian-owned, SWaM-certified cybersecurity consulting firm guiding small and mid-sized organizations to identify, assess, and mitigate technology and cyber risks through security risk assessments, AI risk management, compliance, resilience, and C‑level advisory services. SMBs, Are you ready to pay $3.31 million or would you rather prevent it with a fraction of that cost? IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 puts the global average breach cost at $4.35 million. For businesses with fewer than 500 employees specifically, IBM's figure is $3.31 million. That number includes forensics, legal fees, regulatory fines, notification costs, credit monitoring services for affected customers, lost business during downtime, and the long-term reputational damage that drives customer churn for months or years after the incident.