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Home // Posts // Tools to Protect Against Deepfake Impersonation
The digital signature market relies on businesses being able to operate and sign their documents online, wherever, whenever, and with whoever, while trusting the person is who they say they are. But what happens when that trust breaks? Going back to paper-based processes isn’t the answer and continuing
Fraud losses are predicted to escalate to tens of billions of dollars in the United States alone, with banks leading the way in using and developing technologies to fight fraud. So, how can businesses gain access to these technologies and know that they will help in protecting them from things like deepfake impersonation
It’s important that all businesses start to educate and learn about the tools they can use to protect themselves against fraud, and one aspect of this is identity fraud through deepfake impersonation and how it leads to signature fraud.
Secured Signing has developed many parts of a trust system that can be used to prevent fraud, and these can be used on their own, or all together, as required by the business. So, let’s get into it.
IPEN, known as In Person Electronic Notarization, is a face-to-face solution for electronic notarization.
It allows notaries to meet with their clients face-to-face, discuss the documents in-person, and sign and notarize the documents electronically.
Simply put, it is very difficult for someone to “Deepfake” another person when they meet you in person and sit across from you in real life. Deepfake impersonation thrives in an online environment. So, by removing that “online environment” you basically remove the threat of Deepfake impersonation. However, issues arise when ensuring the person is who they say they are, and that they aren’t using fake IDs, fake information, etc.
IPEN is great for checking realness, because you are in-person with your clients. It is important to do your due diligence in person to ensure the person is who they say they are before signing and notarizing their documents.
ID Verification is a tool that allows you to scan a person’s ID and check if it is a real ID, or a fake, before the person proceeds to getting their documents signed or notarized. But it doesn’t stop there.
On top of checking whether an ID is fake or not, many ID Verification tools offer secondary tests to check the realness of a person which include asking the person providing the ID to take a selfie which is later used to match the selfie with the face in the ID provided. It also is used to ensure that the person undertaking the ID Verification test is a “real person”, which the industry calls “liveness checks”.
You can also make sure that data within the ID matches the data provided by the person who you are inviting to sign for additional levels of security. This is the beauty of how Secured Signing helps with preventing fraud, before the document is even viewed for signing.
ID Verification has become a staple in verifying the identity of a person, online.
Knowledge-Based Authentication, or KBA, is simply a short quiz that is asked of your signers before they can sign the documents. Typically, the quiz is four to five questions and are specific questions that only the signer would know. For example, what is your mother’s maiden name, or what was the address you lived at 3 years ago.
Knowledge-Based Authentication, although not revealing a person is a deepfake impersonator, helps reveal if the person who is about to sign your documents is who they say they are, as they are able to successfully answer questions that only the person signing should be able to answer. It is a safe way to ensure that you can stop the signing process before it proceeds any further and opens your business up to the threat of deepfake impersonation.
Video Confirmation is a Secured Signing feature, that is primarily used in the Finance industry, which prompts the signer to record a short video as they are about to complete the signing of their online documents. When the signer approves that they will complete the recording, a gesture and record a short video clip for review. For example, a gesture-specific prompt might include raising your right shoulder up to your right ear.
The finance industry loves this feature, as it allows them to review videos of their signers before they proceed to releasing funds, or taking the process to the next step.
In review of the recorded “Video Confirmation”, it is important to check if the person follows the gesture-specific prompt correctly and if there are any unnatural facial movements during this recording, and distortions in the arms or face, any blurring or misalignment around the face, neck, mouth or eyes, and any general glitches in the recording. If you notice this, it may require you to further check the identity and realness of the person before proceeding to getting the documents signed.
A Robust Solution: When used with ID Verification, it also allows you to undertake a “second” realness check to compare that the “Video Confirmation” recorded video, and the person in the video, matches the images provided in the ID Verification process to ensure the person is who they are.
Video Signing or Remote Online Notarization is the process of signing documents online via an online meeting. It uses secure audio-video technology for the notary (or host) to witness the signing and notarizing of documents remotely.
Both Video Signing and RON mitigate the risk of deepfake impersonation through real-time interaction via the online meeting room.
For example, the signer appears live on camera, allowing the host of the video signing or remote online notarization to observe natural behavior, facial expressions, and reactions of the signer(s) that are hard to fake with deepfake video.
During these sessions, it naturally requires the signer to respond to prompts, answer questions, or perform actions, making it difficult for deepfake technology to simulate a responsive real-time interaction. And, the entire session is recorded with a secure audit trail, which adds further protection against fraud and enables the hosts to review if needed.
Secured Signing developed a natural progression or step in the process called ID Visual Check. In a video and/or RON session, ID Visual Check where allows you as a host to compare the ID’s that were submitted during ID Verification with the person(s) physically present in the video session. This helps confirm that the person on the call genuinely matches the official ID and is not an impersonator or using fake documents.
ID Visual Check enhances security against deepfake impersonation by requiring the signer to respond dynamically during the session, making it difficult for deepfake technology to simulate real-time reactions convincingly. This live interaction provides an opportunity to observe the signer’s natural behavior and detect signs of synthetic video manipulation.
Additionally, ID Visual Check enables a live facial comparison between the person in the session and the identity document submitted during verification, allowing for a real-time confirmation of identity through a “facial match” to the verified ID.
Secured Signing integrates advanced deepfake detection for video and audio, safeguarding businesses against identity fraud during Video Signing and Remote Online Notarization, (RON), session.
Realify by Secured Signing uses advanced AI to analyze a signer’s video and audio – before and during online signing or Remote Online Notarization meeting, to confirm they’re real. It creates a secure, verifiable scan of the signer’s face and voice, instantly classifying the interaction as authentic, suspicious, or fake.
By proactively detecting deepfakes and impersonation attempts, Realify helps prevent fraudulent signings, reduce risk, and protect everyone involved in the transaction.
Because in a digital world, trust starts with certainty.
And there may be tools in the future that are developed and added to the suite of existing tools within a tech providers feature set to help in reviewing and analyzing any of the video recordings and checking the video signing sessions to see if any members were using deepfake technology during the video session itself.
We offer tools to businesses that require both signing and notarization to help in proving people are who they say they are, and that they are real (not deepfake or AI). Deepfake protection isn’t a requirement, it’s a necessity for businesses that want to operate online, and as we all know, this tech moves fast.
In our opinion, the best protection is using everything you can to protect yourself and your clients from the concerns around Deepfake, Deepfake impersonation and AI. It’s not a 100% guarantee, but it provides you the best chance of catching malicious actors before/during/after the signing process and preventing the cause of harm.