Understanding Image Tamper Scoring 

Learn how it can improve your business processes

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When using photos for business purposes, such as insurance claims, loan underwriting or safety inspections, it is always important to know whether a photo is real or whether it has been altered or tampered. Attestiv uses AI to detect photo anomalies and fraud by scanning for evidence across a variety of attributes including an image’s metadata, provenance (origin), if it is a photo of photo or a screen, integrity, quality (low lighting or blur), and a whether it has been used elsewhere on the internet.

Once our process is complete, each image receives an easy to understand tamper score.

The Scoring System

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Every image that goes through our system is given a single score ranging between one to 100. Images scoring lower on the spectrum are considered to be trustworthy and need no human intervention. Images on the higher end of the spectrum (50 and above) deserve a second look or might require a request for a new image submission.

Analysis by group of images
In certain business cases, like insurance claims, multiple images are submitted by a customer or third-party to help provide evidence for a situation. We call these groupings “Records”.

While each image still receives an individual tamperscore, the record itself also receives a score. This is beneficial because we take the individual scores PLUS we compare the image’s metadata against each other to ensure that the images were taken at the same time and location to add an extra layer of protection for businesses.

Reporting and Alerts

A summary report, providing details on items requiring attention and further inspection, facilitates employee decision-making and enables automated validation. These reports can be emailed or alerts can be sent as required. 

As an Attestiv customer, the online dashboard also provides details in real-time. See the dashboard in action >

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Improvements to Business Process

Due to the growing reliance on customer-supplied photos across industries, there are many issues and risks that businesses face, including:

  • Fraud attempts from altered or incorrect photos and videos
  • Questionable accuracy of data
  • Manual inspections or validation processes requiring additional staffing resources


By enforcing standards for all digital media received from your customers, you can make confident business decisions, and enable automation and straight-through processing initiatives.

Learn more about creating digital media best practices > 

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Nicos Vekiarides

Nicos Vekiarides

Nicos Vekiarides is the Chief Executive Officer & co-founder of Attestiv. He has spent the past 20+ years in enterprise IT and cloud, as a CEO & entrepreneur, bringing innovative new technologies to market. His previous startup, TwinStrata, an innovative cloud storage company where he pioneered cloud-integrated storage for the enterprise, was acquired by EMC in 2014. Before that, he brought to market the industry’s first storage virtualization appliance for StorageApps, a company later acquired by HP.

Nicos holds 6 technology patents in storage, networking and cloud technology and has published numerous articles on new technologies. Nicos is a partner at Mentors Fund, an early-stage venture fund, a mentor at Founder Institute Boston, where he coaches first-time entrepreneurs, and an advisor to several companies. Nicos holds degrees from MIT and Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark Morley

Mark Morley is the Chief Operating Officer of Attestiv.

He received his formative Data Integrity training at Deloitte. Served as the CFO of Iomega (NYSE), the international manufacturer of Zip storage devices, at the time,  the second fastest-growing public company in the U.S.. He served as the CFO of Encore Computer (NASDAQ) as it grew from Revenue of $2 million to over $200 million. During “Desert Storm”, Mark was required to hold the highest U.S. and NATO clearances.

Mark authored a seminal article on Data Integrity online (Wall Street Journal Online). Additionally, he served as EVP, General Counsel and CFO at Digital Guardian, a high-growth cybersecurity company.

Earlier in his career, he worked at an independent insurance agency, Amica as a claims representative, and was the CEO of the captive insurance subsidiary of a NYSE company.

He obtained Bachelor (Economics) and Doctor of Law degrees from Boston College and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.