--- title: Can you prove the person on the other side is real? description: Synthetic identity fraud and deepfake technology are eroding traditional identity verification controls, creating serious risks for organizations handling... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/can-you-prove-the-person-on-the-other-side-is-real--vbz5kl05o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Can you prove the person on the other side is real? | daily.dev og:description: Synthetic identity fraud and deepfake technology are eroding traditional identity verification controls, creating serious risks for organizations handling... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/can-you-prove-the-person-on-the-other-side-is-real--vbz5kl05o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Vbz5KL05o.png og:image:alt: Can you prove the person on the other side is real? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Can you prove the person on the other side is real? **[CSO Online](https://daily.dev/sources/csoonline)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Synthetic identity fraud and deepfake technology are eroding traditional identity verification controls, creating serious risks for organizations handling high-stakes workflows like estate management and financial distributions. Attackers manufacture complete digital personas with plausible histories, documents, and even live video/voice to bypass routine checks. The piece argues that CISOs must shift from surface-level identity checks to forensic provenance analysis, cross-channel signal correlation, and continuous risk-tiered verification. Internal workflows also need least-privilege access, named owners for high-impact roles, and audit trails. Organizations that treat identity assurance as measurable and regularly adversarially tested will be best positioned to defend against AI-enabled impersonation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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