KPMG LLP Takes Minority Stake in Deepfake Detector Reality Defender

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KPMG LLP has acquired a minority stake in Reality Defender, a platform built to detect deepfakes, with financial terms of the transaction not disclosed. Reality Defender's multimodal detection technology integrates with communications platforms, business applications and enterprise workflows, assessing the authenticity of voice and video in real time so organisations can respond to suspected impersonation attempts and fraud. KPMG said the investment will let it fold deepfake detection capabilities into its cyber and fraud prevention practices as it seeks new ways to verify the authenticity of increasingly widespread deepfake content. Reality Defender co-founder and CEO Ben Colman said AI is changing how organisations operate and how attackers exploit trust, adding that together with KPMG the two can help organisations strengthen defences against AI-enabled fraud. The deal forms part of KPMG's wider focus on helping clients adopt AI while managing associated risks through its cyber, risk and transformation practice, and follows KPMG's earlier acquisition of a stake in AI-driven credits and incentives technology company Incentify.

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KPMG LLP acquired a minority stake in Reality Defender to fold deepfake detection into its cyber and fraud prevention practices.

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Reality Defender received a minority investment from KPMG LLP, gaining a strategic partner for its deepfake detection platform.

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