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Gartner survey: 41 percent of CISOs report a deepfake on an audio call

At the Security and Risk Management Summit in London on 22 September, Infosecurity Magazine reported a Gartner survey of 297 senior cybersecurity leaders. 41 percent reported at least one deepfake incident on an employee audio call in the previous 12 months, and 36 percent said the same of a video call. News4Hackers independently stated those two shares.

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The shares both pages state

Infosecurity Magazine says Gartner published the findings as the Security and Risk Management Summit opened in London on 22 September. The survey covered 297 senior cybersecurity leaders. 41 percent reported at least one social-engineering incident involving a deepfake during an employee audio call in the previous 12 months. 36 percent said the same of a video call. News4Hackers states the same two shares: 41 percent of CISOs had encountered at least one deepfake audio incident on an employee call in the past year, and 36 percent reported a similar incident on a video call. The second page does not repeat the sample of 297, so that count stays with Infosecurity Magazine.[1], [2]

What the survey does not settle

A share of security leaders reporting an incident counts incidents rather than successful frauds, and it does not measure how often a deepfake fools a person. The two pages agree on the audio and video shares. They do not describe the wording of the question beyond a deepfake inside a social-engineering incident on a call, and they do not say what the other respondents saw.[1], [2]

Why the summit timing matters

Infosecurity Magazine places the publication at the opening of Gartner's London summit on 22 September. That is the news event: a consulting firm's survey of its CISO respondents, released into a room of security buyers, and repeated the same day by a second outlet. Infosecurity Magazine says Gartner is telling that room to update incident-response playbooks, because artificial intelligence has made social-engineering messages more credible than a familiar phishing email.[1], [2]

References

  1. News sourceInfosecurity MagazineA Gartner survey has 41 percent of CISOs reporting a deepfake on an audio call↩1↩2↩3
  2. News sourceNews4HackersA Gartner survey has 41 percent of CISOs reporting a deepfake on an audio call↩1↩2↩3
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