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Mark Morris
It's crucial before the elections !
Bethan Vincent
Thank you Microsoft for your fight against cyber criminals
Jack Rowcroft
This is scary as hell !
Adam Jackson
Our reliance on technology is destroying our society.
Digitally altered and synthetic media are becoming more of a problem.
Openly available tools, including AI Deep Learning, enable the easy modification of pictures and videos for distribution on the Internet.
Most are benign; clearing up acne, improving image lighting, creating a funny meme, or perhaps narrowing a waistline for aesthetic reasons.
More disturbing is the generation of videos of known personalities, making them appear to make caustic statements or take part in inappropriate activities.
These fakes have appeared in political posts, social satire, news media, and pornographic material. Motivations are sometimes for humor, vanity, vindictiveness, or to sway public viewpoints.
The most malicious reasons are just around the corner. Cybercriminals, who innately understand the value of impersonation and counterfeiting identities, are drooling at potentially using this technology to open entirely new lucrative branches of scams, phishing, and identity theft.
Every day the technology to create synthetic digital representations gets more believable and accessible, the closer it will end up in the hands of criminals.
The societal problems are only beginning as the tools to create fakes are far outpacing the capabilities to detect them.
Several organizations are working toward the goal of confidently identifying digital modification in pictures, audio, and video.
Microsoft has recently announced one such tool for analyzing videos, purposely being released in advance of the U.S. elections, to help media sites and social watchdogs detect misleading political deepfakes.
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Microsoft Research is aware their technology will be undermined soon, but having some tools to help identify truth as the election cycle begins, is better than nothing.
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The war on deepfakes is just starting. Technology innovation is working on both sides, to create realistic synthetic content and to detect such creations before they are accepted as truth.
Society will be caught in the cross-fire as we all must consider if what we see and hear is actually real.
Interested in more? Follow me on LinkedIn, Medium, and Twitter (@Matt_Rosenquist) to hear insights, rants, and what is going on in cybersecurity.
It's crucial before the elections !
Thank you Microsoft for your fight against cyber criminals
This is scary as hell !
Our reliance on technology is destroying our society.
Matthew Rosenquist is an industry-recognized pragmatic, passionate, and innovative strategic security expert with 28 years of experience. He thrives in challenging cybersecurity environments and in the face of ever shifting threats. A leader in identifying opportunities, driving industry change, and building mature security organizations, Matthew delivers capabilities for sustainable security postures. He has experience in protecting billions of dollars of corporate assets, consulting across industry verticals, understanding current and emerging risks, communicating opportunities, forging internal cooperation and executive buy-in, and developing practical strategies. Matthew is a trusted advisor, security expert, and evangelist for academia, businesses, and governments around the world. A public advocate for best-practices, and communicating the risks and opportunities emerging in cybersecurity. He delivers engaging keynotes, speeches, interviews, and consulting sessions at conferences and to audiences around the globe. He has attracted a large social following of security peers, is an active member on advisory boards, and quoted in news, magazines, and books. Matthew is a recognized industry expert, speaker, and leader who enjoys the pursuit of achieving optimal cybersecurity. Matthew Rosenquist is experienced in building world class teams and capabilities, managing security operations, evangelizing best-practices to the market, developing security products, and improving corporate security services.
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