Gartner Report: Biometrics Are Under Siege from Deepfakes – It’s Time to Redefine Trust

A recent Gartner report has issued a stark warning to enterprises:

By 2026, 30% of organizations will consider identity verification and authentication solutions unreliable in isolation due to deepfakes.

The focus was facial biometrics, but the same considerations apply to voice-based authentication systems. Deepfake voice tools, fuelled by generative AI, are now capable of impersonating individuals with uncanny precision. In seconds, a threat actor can clone a voice, manipulate tone, and bypass legacy voice biometric defences.

This is not a theoretical risk – it is a systemic vulnerability!

Why Traditional Biometrics Are No Longer Enough

Biometric security was built on the assumption that physical and behavioural traits were inherently secure. But AI has changed the game. We now live in a world where a person’s voice or face can be fabricated and deployed at scale to commit fraud, manipulate systems, and erode trust.

As Gartner notes, biometrics in isolation may no longer be sufficient without addressing deepfake attacks. Organizations need more than a match – they need proof of life, verifiability, and data integrity.

The ValidSoft Approach: Cryptographically Verifiable Trust

ValidSoft’s Voice Identity Platform (√IP®) is built specifically for this moment. It incorporates foundational pillars that go far beyond voice biometric authentication:

• In-built Liveness Detection – Our technology is built from the ground up on liveness, deployed in a totally natural way that focuses on ease of use and simplicity with no sacrifice of security.
• Irrevocability, Non-Repudiation & Data Immutability – our in-built tamper-proof, auditable identity verification creates events to ensure that voice interactions cannot be denied or faked.
• Deepfake Detection – Our AI models are trained specifically to flag and neutralize synthetic audio threats.
• Quantum-Safe Architecture – our future-proof approach ensures data integrity and security in the era of quantum computing.
• Privacy Certified – the only voice biometric platform granted four EU EuroPriSe® Privacy Seals

Preparing for What Comes Next

The future of identity authentication will require more than matching signals. It will require verifiable, privacy-protected, AI-resilient systems that can’t be spoofed and won’t be broken by the next wave of innovation.

ValidSoft is proud to lead that charge, delivering trust as a service through versatile, resilient, secure, ethical voice biometric authentication.