Expose the hidden security trade-offs of modern connectivity and protect your devices, networks, and mobile identity from exploitation.
Security breaches rarely begin with passwords alone—they begin with access. “The Cost of Convenience Series: Access Points: Devices, Networks, and SIM Swapping” explores the often-overlooked infrastructure that quietly enables account compromise in the modern digital world.
In this course, Ashley Karr examines how fraudsters exploit the systems that connect our digital lives: mobile devices, phone numbers, Wi-Fi networks, browser sessions, recovery mechanisms, and telecom infrastructure. Special focus is given to SIM swapping and phone-based authentication, where control of a single number can unlock access to multiple accounts and services.
Participants will gain a practical understanding of how access moves through interconnected systems and how attackers exploit weak points that most users never consider. Rather than relying on technical deep dives, the session emphasizes clear, real-world behaviors and structural awareness to help reduce exposure and strengthen everyday digital resilience.
Key Topics Discussed:
Human Factors Engineer, Fraud Prevention and Cybersecurity Strategist
Ashley Karr is a human factors engineer and product design strategist with nearly two decades of experience working at the intersection of human behavior, complex systems, and applied technology design. Her work focuses on how people interact with modern digital environments where convenience, speed, distraction, and cognitive overload often shape decisions as much as intent or awareness. She has worked across finance, enterprise technology, cybersecurity-adjacent systems, identity protection, and large-scale digital product environments, including roles with organizations such as Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Oracle, and T-Mobile for Business. Her work examines how modern fraud operates in practice, not only through technical means but through predictable patterns of human behavior under pressure, trust, and limited attention. She focuses on how manipulation is engineered and scaled within connected systems, why traditional fraud prevention approaches often fail, and where system design unintentionally increases exposure. Her areas of focus include fraud prevention, digital safety, identity protection, human factors engineering, cybersecurity awareness, scam reduction, and operational resilience in complex digital environments.
