Digital Social Hour
How AI Is Transforming Cybersecurity & Business | Ephraim Ebstein DSH #1244
Tue, 18 Mar 2025
🚀 How is AI reshaping cybersecurity and revolutionizing businesses? Tune in now to this exciting episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! Join cybersecurity expert Ephraim Ebstein as he shares how he built a $30M business, navigated the challenges of AI integration, and tackled the evolving landscape of cybersecurity. 💼 From AI replacing jobs to driving innovation, Ephraim breaks down how businesses can stay ahead in this fast-moving digital age. Discover how advanced AI tools are automating processes, enhancing customer service, and even transforming industries like fast food, healthcare, and IT. 🌐💡 Plus, hear fascinating stories about cyber threats, ransomware attacks, and the strategies companies are using to defend against them. This episode is packed with valuable insights for entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, and anyone curious about the future of AI in business. Don’t miss out! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Ephraim Ebstein Interview 01:36 - AI Technology Concerns 05:01 - SRGpros Overview 06:55 - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) 09:18 - Going Public Strategies 12:49 - Cyber Attacks Awareness 17:30 - Changing Perspectives on Money 18:45 - Spearfishing Techniques 20:40 - Shark Encounter Stories 25:42 - Orcas in the Wild 27:25 - Octopus Behavior Insights 29:14 - Hunting Practices 33:46 - Raw Food Diet for Dogs 40:24 - Learning from Failures 43:16 - The Role of Luck 46:49 - Influences and Copying 50:34 - Importance of Education 52:49 - Energy Drainers 54:10 - Red Pill Movement Explained 56:40 - Social Media and Dating Impact 1:00:45 - Getting Married Younger Trends 1:04:06 - Where to Find Ephraim 1:04:25 - Outro APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Ephraim Ebstein https://www.instagram.com/kingspear/ SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #adventure #robertherjavec #managedserviceproviders #ai #jasonalbuquerque #artificialintelligence #bugbounty #digitaleconomy #digitaltransformationtrends #cybersecurity #businessautomation
Chapter 1: How is AI transforming businesses today?
All right, guys. Ephraim Epstein here today from San Diego. Cybersecurity expert. Thanks for coming on, man.
Yeah, man. Thank you, Sean. Absolutely. A pleasure. I'm excited to be on your podcast. Yeah. I'm a big fan.
Chapter 2: What challenges come with AI integration?
So for those that don't know, you built a $30 million business and revenue with 116 employees.
Yes, sir. Yeah. So in IT, cybersecurity, and now we're doing a lot in AI. So it's been a fun ride. I love being an entrepreneur and I love the business side of it. You know, IT and cyber and AI is kind of what we do, but it's more about the mission to impact lives through technology and help people positively and have a great time. I love it, man.
When was the pivot to AI? Were you on it pretty early?
The AI pivot was probably like a year ago. Okay. So I wouldn't say super early, but I think right now it's still super early because... it's moving fast but the majority of businesses still don't have ai in the company like actively replacing headcount or something like that right they might be using applications to like give them ideas on writing papers or creating uh images or video
Chapter 3: How does AI impact job markets?
But the way AI is going, it's kind of sad and it's kind of scary in some sense, but it is going to replace a lot of jobs. You're already seeing it on certain drive-thrus when you call and make your order. You're talking to AI and not a human yet.
I haven't seen that yet.
Fast food spots? Yeah, some fast food spots are adopting that. Wow. That's a job, right? That's someone's job. But a lot of business owners are saying, hey, how do we bring AI into this business? We don't want to get left behind. What do we do? And so as I was diving into AI, I wanted not just a feature set, but I wanted something...
That is like, where is it actively adding revenue to the company or replacing a task that a human does? And where we've landed on is texting. So because the voice is getting there, it's not quite 100% there. I think it'll be there in about a year. But right now, texting, you can communicate via text with an AI. And the majority of people will not know they're talking to an AI.
Dude, have you seen Apple's new AI update? I haven't played with it yet. What? Yeah, I need to. Oh my God. Update your phone tonight. It's in my text now.
I just got the update. I just haven't played with it yet.
Yeah. So basically when I open my messages now, you know how normally the text pops up? Yep. Now AI summarizes what they said and sends you a summary of each text.
Yeah.
It's nuts. So like someone can send a paragraph text and AI will summarize it for you in like a sentence.
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Chapter 4: Why is cybersecurity crucial in nursing homes?
That's terrible. Yeah. Crypto, once you lose it, you're not really.
Yeah. Like really, what can they do?
I got sim hacked once. That sucked. Have you seen that hack before?
Yeah.
That's like the worst. Yeah. Because if they get your sim card, they got all your texts and everything. Everything. Yeah. Your email.
Yeah. They can do multi-factor authentication, get in as you on logins.
There's a lot of carriers that really, I guess, tighten their security when that started happening because they were getting sued.
Yeah.
For allowing that.
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Chapter 5: What are the methods used in modern cyber attacks?
Nuts. And nothing ever happened to those hackers, I believe. They got rich. They got rich, but nothing trouble-wise happened.
No, absolutely not. Now they're going to probably have more money to hire more staff.
They went after Caesars the next week, I believe. Yeah. Caesars Palace. Yeah. And they own a bunch of casinos in Vegas. I don't know how that one went, but... Crazy.
They work. Yeah, it works. It works good. And it's not just a lot of companies think that or business owners just think, oh, it's the big companies that MGM stuff like that. No, no. The majority of it, MGM, everyone knows it and it's big. So it made the news. By far, the majority of it is only smaller businesses. Yeah. Because they're easy, low hanging fruit. Absolutely. Yeah.
Has your view of money changed over the years as you've made more and more?
absolutely yeah so you know growing up i grew up middle class we weren't we weren't poor but we weren't rich at all you know camping trip was vacation yeah right yeah we weren't like flying on a yacht or anything like that so
you know we grew up with middle class financial literacy and it wasn't until much later i learned financial literacy through through mentors and unless you're born into like uh rich parents that teach you this or unless you go out and find mentors which most people don't do you're really not going to learn it because you're not going to learn in school
So, you know, just how I invest, how I think about saving, everything about it has changed from a financial literacy thing. But also, you know, for me, Experiences, being able to do things, freedom is much more important to me than money itself. Money is just like the unit, the freedom unit to get it done.
Yeah. Yeah. I bet you feel freedom when you're spearfishing. I love that.
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Chapter 6: What are the personal stories of facing wildlife?
Chapter 7: How do personal experiences shape business perspectives?
I've never done it. It seems pretty fun.
It is fun. It's basically snorkeling, holding your breath, diving down. It's like hunting underwater, trying to get a fish that way.
What's the biggest fish you've caught and
I got a fish that was close. I didn't get an official weight. It was close to 300 pounds.
What?
Yeah.
Holy crap.
Yeah, I'll show you a picture.
Dude, so you need a... Down in Mexico. You shoot it in the head, right? That's how it...
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Chapter 8: What is the ethical approach to hunting and consuming meat?
That's crazy.
Only that pod does it. Or maybe one or two pods do that. But not the ones in California don't do that. And the ones down there don't eat sharks. It's kind of interesting.
Chiller whales, man.
Yeah. But dolphins are right in that family. Super smart. They figure stuff out. What about octopus? You see any of those? I have seen some octopus. They're really cool.
They're smart, too.
Yeah, they're smart. There's a cool documentary called My Octopus Teacher.
I heard about it. I didn't see it yet, though.
Yeah, I never felt so sad for an octopus because it goes through its whole life. And at the end, you know, of course, they only live like two years.
Oh, that's it? Yeah. Wow.
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