ISMG Editors: How Deepfakes Are Breaking Digital Trust

Also: How Non-Human Identities Redefine Security; the Delinea-StrongDM Deal Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • January 23, 2026

In this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed how deepfakes are reshaping digital Know Your Customer practices, what the rise of non-human identities means for CISOs and what Delinea's acquisition of StrongDM tells us about where the privileged access market is heading.

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The panelists - Anna Delaney, executive director, productions; Mathew Schwartz, executive editor of DataBreachToday and Europe; Michael Novinson, executive editor, ISMG Business; and Tom Field, senior vice president, editorial - discussed:

• How increasingly cheap and effective artificial intelligence-driven deepfake and face-swapping tools are undermining digital KYC and biometric liveness checks, lowering the barrier for fraud and forcing organizations to rethink identity verification and defensive testing;
• How AI-driven threats, particularly deepfakes and the explosive growth of non-human identities, are forcing CISOs to rethink ...