Israeli startup isVerified on Thursday emerged from stealth mode with applications designed to protect enterprises against attacks leveraging voice deepfakes.
Conducting voice phishing (vishing) and other voice-based attacks has become easy thanks to AI advancements, and C-level executives, board members, senior employees, and public officials have been increasingly targeted.
isVerified emerged from cybercrime intelligence company Hudson Rock, aiming to tackle the threat posed by AI-generated voice impersonation.
Roi Carthy, co-founder and CEO of Hudson Rock, who now also serves as CEO of isVerified, told SecurityWeek that the human voice has become the weakest link for enterprise security.
Carthy pointed out that a person’s voice can be cloned by specialized gen-AI tools in seconds. Threat actors can then use these audio deepfakes to manipulate a company’s employees, bypass financial controls, and authorize operational decisions. And because these attacks target the human trust layer rather than IT systems, they are difficult to detect and block.
isVerified aims to address this with mobile applications — available for both Android and iOS — that add an integrity layer to executive and institutional communications.
The company’s mobile apps are designed for real-time language-agnostic detection of deepfake and synthetic audio throughout an entire phone call.
isVerified uses biometric identity verification to create a tamper-resistant binding between the real person and the communication channel, preventing account spoofing and unauthorized voice access.
The product is built on top of a hardened VoIP communication layer to prevent interception.
Potential privacy concerns are addressed by the phone call analysis being conducted locally on the user’s device. In addition, isVerified says the applications are designed to be compliant with data protection standards.
The security firm says its deepfake detection applications can be used by both companies and government organizations.
Carthy said the company cannot share any information on funding at this time.
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