Misinformation/Disinformation: Verifiable Content & Source Trust
Combined Session
Thursday, May 21, 2026 12:05—13:05
Location: A 03-04
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Thursday, May 21, 2026 12:05—13:05
Location: A 03-04
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The importance of content authenticity has become a hot topic in the identity space, as it touches end-user identity, enterprise identity, asset identity and regulatory oversight. With digital credentials being issued by both governments and online entities, the next question is how content creators and media outlets assure the authenticity of content with or without recourse to those central foundations. AI and Deep Fakes abound, and it’s become difficult for consumers to tell the difference between a real eyewitness account and a manufactured account. Simultaneously, creatives and professional organizations are concerned about getting credit and compensation for their intellectual property. Five independent organizations collaborate to define and support the content authenticity ecosystem, including Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), the Creator Assertions Working Group (CAWG), and the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) . Quite rapidly, these teams recognized that there will not be “one authentication protocol to rule them all” and have settled on a hybrid approach which accepts a variety of authentication methods for individuals and a variety of data inputs, while setting clear industry standards for hardware and software manufacturers to build in content manifests and ownership assertions. This agnostic approach is a breakthrough in giving the content creators the power to determine for themselves what entities they trust for digital identification credentials usecase by usecase, and offers an open-world approach to wallet developers.
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Remote video meetings have transformed how high-stakes interactions take place across sectors. Governments now perform benefit eligibility checks and tax interviews remotely. Financial institutions rely on video to verify identity and conduct KYC and AML checks. Enterprises interview, hire, and collaborate with workers they may never meet in person.
But this shift has created an exploitable entry point for attackers. With minimal cost, skill, or effort, bad actors can now produce high-fidelity deepfake personas beyond human detection and use them to spoof remote meetings. KuppingerCole’s Osman Celik highlights the ease of producing deepfakes: “a few photographs or short video clips are enough to train face-swap or lip-sync models that produce convincing enough outputs to fool many observers.”
This vulnerability was exposed in the attack on the multinational engineering firm Arup, wherein a finance professional transferred $25.5 million after attending a video call populated entirely by deepfaked executives.
Now that video conferencing is pervasive across sectors, deepfake-enabled exploits can lead to the diversion of public or corporate funds, infiltration of systems and information, and even the compromise of national security.
In this session, Peter James discusses:
- Today’s deepfake attacks: The tools, the trends, and why they're working
- Why video conferencing remains the unguarded entry point, regardless of your perimeter defenses
- What governments and businesses can do to close the gap and restore trust in remote interactions
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Deepfakes are available to anyone, and make it trivial to fake your online presence. For businesses relying on digital onboarding, this is a serious and growing threat.
Digital onboarding has evolved over the years; each step forward brought new safeguards to ensure you really know your customers. But deepfakes are changing the game; they are becoming better every day, to the point where people can no longer tell that they are fake, and machines struggle with the same.
What are the real consequences of fake identities entering your system, and what can you do about it?
