Why Deepfake Detection Belongs in Your Cybersecurity Playbook

Cybersecurity isn’t just about firewalls, passwords, or virus scan anymore. In 2025, the battlefield includes your voice, your face, your identity.

Thanks to generative AI, it’s now easier than ever for attackers to impersonate individuals, forge documents, or create entirely fake media that looks—and sounds—real. These aren’t just edge cases anymore. Deepfakes have become tools for real-world cybercrime.

Deepfakes: Next-Gen Cyber Threat, Here Now

Cybercriminals no longer need to crack code—they just need to trick a human with a believable video, image, or audio clip.

Common attack scenarios:

  • Deepfake phishing: Synthetic CEO videos and/or voices instructing employees to wire funds

  • Fake Zoom meetings: Video-based impersonations of executives or vendors

  • AI-generated credentials: Fake job applicants, insurance claims, or ID documents

  • Reputation sabotage: Deepfake videos of executives used for extortion or misinformation

A 2024 Gartner report predicted that by 2026, 30% of large enterprises will experience a security breach via synthetic media. The time has come to take action.

If your cybersecurity stack doesn’t address the deepfake threat—it’s incomplete.

Why Traditional Cyber Tools Can’t Keep Up

Firewalls and endpoint protection don’t flag deepfakes.
Email security filters don’t detect AI-manipulated videos or voice calls.
Even human reviewers may be fooled by hyper-realistic fakes.

Deepfake detection requires specialized AI trained to spot synthetic fingerprints, often invisible to the naked eye—something most cybersecurity stacks lack entirely.

Cybersecurity-Ready Deepfake Detection

Deepfake detection fills the critical gap in your cyber defense strategy.

Enterprise-grade tools to verify the authenticity of media and communications, enable organizations to:

✅ Detect manipulated images, videos, audio, and documents
✅ Flag spoofed identities and synthetic impersonations
✅ Integrate protection into messaging, onboarding, claims, and compliance workflows
✅ Prevent reputational harm, financial fraud, and misinformation campaigns

Whether you’re protecting an executive or your company, evaluating user-submitted evidence, or reviewing internal communications, everyone need cybersecurity solutions that help you trust what you see—and what you hear.

What Sets Attestiv’s Deepfake Cybersecurity Solution Apart

  • Multi-modal AI detection: Works across audio, video, image, and text

  • Real-time analysis: Validate media as it’s submitted or received

  • Explainable results: Clear, forensic-style breakdowns for decision-makers

  • API & workflow integration: Seamlessly fits into existing security architecture

If deepfakes are part of the attack surface, then deepfake detection needs to be part of the security stack.

Ready to Secure Your Business Against AI-Generated Threats?

Don’t wait until your organization becomes a headline. Learn how Attestiv can help you defend against deepfake-driven cyberattacks.

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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.