Gartner Predicts 40% of Government Organizations Will Establish TrustOps to Counter Deepfake Threats by 2028
Forty percent of government organizations will establish dedicated TrustOps functions by 2028 to combat deepfake identity impersonation and disinformation-as-a-service (DaaS), according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.
Government organizations must urgently establish trust capabilities, such as transitioning from reactive fact-checking to a proactive trust architecture, to defend against deepfakes. These threats manifest as public-facing disinformation campaigns, such as impersonating leaders to issue misleading public statements, and in attacks on internal systems. The latter aims to compromise automated biometric authentication (voice or face) or use social engineering to manipulate employees into harmful actions, typically by rapidly establishing authority and urgency.
“Deepfakes can undermine or even weaponize notions of digital identity, attacking the credibility of the State itself,” said Daniel Nieto, Sr. Director Analyst at Gartner. “If citizens cannot distinguish a legitimate prime minister’s announcement or a secure tax agency portal from a replica, the foundational architecture...
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