Deepfake Text Detection: A CISO’s Readiness Checklist

Generative AI has pushed deepfake capabilities far beyond voice and video. Text-based deepfakes—AI-generated emails, memos, chat transcripts, and statements—are rapidly evolving due to low effort and high believability.

For CISOs, this creates a new challenge: text authenticity.

Research shows that even trained humans struggle to identify AI-generated text. Defending your enterprise now requires purpose-built detection grounded in research—not guesswork.

Below is a practical readiness checklist to begin assessing whether your organization is prepared.

Deepfake text detection checklist for CISOs

1. Mapping risk and exposure

2. Assessing current controls

3. Integrating detection technologies

4. Process and governance

5. Vendor and ecosystem readiness

6. Board and executive alignment

Key takeaway

Deepfake text is not theoretical—it’s active, scalable, and increasingly realistic. As the enterprise attack surface expands, CISOs must treat text authenticity with the same level of importance as they do email security, identity assurance, or endpoint protection.

With research at its core, Pindrop is at the forefront of deepfake text research to help enterprises before it becomes a mainstream method of fraud.

Explore Pindrop’s latest research and findings here:
https://www.pindrop.com/article/tackling-rise-deepfake-text/