Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication tools as standalone protections.
Or so says consultancy and market watcher Gartner, as deepfakes dominate the news since sexually explicit AI-generated viral images of popstar Taylor Swift prompted fans, Microsoft, and the White House to call for action.
However, the relentless march of AI technology can also be the cause of headaches for enterprise security. Remote account recovery, for example, might rely on an image of the individual’s face to unlock security. But since these could be beaten by images copied from social media and other sources, security systems employed “liveness detection” to see if the request was from the right individual.
