How AI Deepfakes Turn Human Trust Into a Cyber Risk

Jeremy Nelson of Insight on AI-Driven Deception and Automated Threats Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • November 27, 2025

Artificial intelligence deepfakes have created an unprecedented crisis in identity verification, exposing enterprises to a new class of identity-driven cyber risk.

"The ability to trust what we see and hear is completely wiped away," said Jeremy Nelson, CISO for North America at Insight. "We now find ourselves completely reliant on other tools and mechanisms in order to be able to fill that gap that deepfakes and AI have now been able to subvert."

Nelson advocates for decentralized identity systems coupled with real-time biometric verification as a resolution to this problem. Like a digital driver's license from trusted issuers, these solutions provide cryptographically sound validation that surpasses what our eyes and ears can no longer reliably confirm in the deepfake era.

In this video interview with Information Security Media Group at Microsoft Ignite 2025 ...