Accenture to Combat Deepfake Extortion, Fraud and Disinformation with Investment in Reality Defender

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has announced recently that it made an investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Reality Defender, an RSA Innovation cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection.

Accenture and Reality Defender will now aim to equip clients in the financial services, and high-tech industries with the “ability to rapidly identify, detect, respond to and prevent deepfake fraud.”

Founded in 2021 and based in New York, Reality Defender provides detection against “advanced threats posed by deepfakes and AI-generated content.”

The company’s solutions for enterprises, government and institutional clients help protect “against everything from advanced voice fraud in call centers to media verification in newsrooms.”

Reality Defender’s real-time voice detection platform catches audio-based deepfakes “as they happen, while audiovisual detection finds even the most advanced AI-generated faces in images and videos made using the latest generative AI models.”

Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting the power of generative AI and advanced large language models to “unleash novel cyberattacks.”

Accenture’s Cyber Intelligence researchers have “documented a staggering 223% spike in deepfake-related tool trading on dark web forums in the first quarter of 2024, compared to the same period in 2023.”

This escalating issue requires immediate “attention and education to reduce its potential damaging impacts.”

Accenture intends to integrate Reality Defender’s capabilities into its existing deepfake detection and protection offering, “including extending it to their call center AI automation solution.”

Reality Defender joins Accenture Ventures’ Project Spotlight, an engagement and investment program focused on working with companies that “create or apply disruptive enterprise technologies.”

Project Spotlight offers extensive access to Accenture’s domain expertise and its enterprise clients, helping startups harness “creativity and deliver on the promise of their technology.”

Additional cybersecurity, quantum security and space companies that have joined Project Spotlight “include Aliro Quantum, Tenchi Security, SpiderOak and Interos.”

As covered, Accenture is a professional services company that helps organizations build their digital core, “optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.”

Accenture Security is a provider of cybersecurity services, including strategy, protection, resilience and industry-specific cyber services.

They bring security innovation, coupled with scale and a delivery capability through their network of Cyber Fusion Centers.

Reality Defender is a cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media.

Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is “robust” against the generative platforms “producing video, audio, imagery, and text media.”

Reality Defender’s deepfake detection web platform and corresponding API empowers teams to identify fraud, “disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.”



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