How Do You Tell a Hacker From an Employee Watching F1 on a VPN?

A hacker logs in from abroad. So does your employee, sneaking a VPN to watch Formula One for free. How on earth do you tell them apart? That's the deceptively simple question at the heart of this episode of The Vendor Blender, where Paul sits down with Romain Basset — co-founder of Belfor.io, PitchIT 2026 cohort member, and a man who cheerfully describes launching his own cybersecurity startup as a "midlife crisis." After more than a decade on the vendor side, Romain decided to play the game on hard mode and build something different: an identity security platform for MSPs that does something clever with the data you're already sitting on. Instead of treating security awareness training as a box-tick, Belfor turns it into behavioural intelligence — using what you know about who fell for which phishing test to sort real account takeovers from the everyday noise. It's a fresh answer to nasty problems like MFA fatigue attacks, and Romain explains it all in refreshingly plain English. But this one's a proper blend. You'll hear why Romain thinks most people don't need to be Formula One drivers of cybersecurity — they just need to drive safely. Why he's giving away free awareness content to schools, journalists and worried sons who don't want their mums getting scammed. And, of course, which track he's adding to the Vendor Blender Spotify playlist (a French band with an international soul). Grab a cuppa. This is cybersecurity made simple — with a bit of rock 'n' roll on the side.