Gartner Names Keepnet a Go-To Vendor for Stopping Deepfake and AI Disinformation Attacks

We’re excited to share a major milestone:

In its new guide “Fight AI Disinformation , A CISO Playbook for Working With Your CIO, CCO and CMO,” Gartner lists Keepnet as one of the example vendors helping organizations move beyond traditional security awareness training toward dynamic, behavior-based nudging to defend against deepfake and AI-powered social engineering attacks.

When Gartner explains how CISOs should protect employees in real time from AI-driven disinformation and deepfake attacks, Keepnet is named as one of the go-to solutions.

That’s a big deal, and here’s why it matters.

Defense in depth beyond deepfake detection (Gartner G00847786)

Gartner's May 2026 research note Gartner G00847786 argues that organizations must move beyond isolated deepfake detection. Recommended layers vary by use case:

Layered deepfake controls by use case (G00847786)

Trust council and experiential training

Gartner recommends a cross-functional trust council (security, HR, finance, communications, legal) and education programs that include experiential scenario training and red-team simulations. That aligns with Keepnet's behavior-based nudging and multi-channel phishing, vishing, and deepfake simulations rather than annual slide-only compliance.

Stats hub: deepfake statistics and trends 2026.

Why This Recognition Matters

AI has changed the game:

• Deepfake voices can sound like your CEO.
• Synthetic video can join your meetings.
• Attackers blend channels: email, messaging apps, calls, QR codes, and MFA prompts.
• Classic “once-a-year” or “check-the-box” training simply can’t keep up.

Gartner’s research makes a clear point: calendar-based training might satisfy compliance, but it doesn’t reliably change behavior. Instead, the focus is shifting toward dynamic nudging and experiential learning, interventions that occur in the flow of work, driven by actual user behavior, not just a static course catalogue.

This is exactly the direction we’ve been building toward for years.

So this recognition is not just a mention in a report; it’s validation that our human risk strategy is aligned with where the market is going.

Understanding the Threat Landscape Through the Gartner Lens

In the guide, Gartner distinguishes between:

• Harmless mistakes and rumors,
• Misleading use of real information,
• And deliberately crafted, harmful false content, including deepfake audio and video, fake narratives, and manipulated stories.

It is this last category of targeted, weaponized disinformation that increasingly goes after employees and executives, exploiting trust in voices, faces, brands, and internal processes. This is precisely where CISOs need new, behavior-focused tools rather than more static awareness modules.

Gartner also maps the capabilities organizations need to counter these attacks, from identity assurance and real-time deepfake detection to security awareness training, content provenance, narrative management, and executive protection.

Keepnet sits squarely in the internal, employee-focused space of this model: strengthening security awareness, reducing human risk, and delivering real-time nudges when people are probed with AI-powered social engineering and deepfake-driven scenarios.

How Keepnet Helps CISOs Fight AI Disinformation in Real Time

Gartner’s playbook emphasizes defending employees against AI-driven disinformation and deepfake attacks across channels and at the moment of decision. That’s where Keepnet’s platform stands out:

From Awareness to Human Risk Management

We don’t just “train users”; we measure and manage human risk. Our platform tracks risky behaviors across email, voice, SMS, QR, MFA-fatigue and more, helping organizations reduce that risk with precise interventions.

Dynamic, Behavior-Based Nudging

Instead of sending everyone the same annual course, Keepnet delivers micro-interventions triggered by real behavior, for example, clicking a suspicious link, responding to a vishing call, scanning a rogue QR code, or accepting repeated push notifications.

Experiential Training for AI-Era Threats

We design realistic, multi-channel simulations that mirror modern attacker tactics:

• Deepfake phishing simulation
• QR phishing (quishing) simulation
• MFA phishing and push-bombing scenarios

Employees don’t just “learn about” these threats; they experience them safely and receive instant feedback, coaching, and reinforcement.

Analyst-Recognized, Enterprise-Grade Platform

Our phishing simulation capabilities sit inside a broader Extended Human Risk Management Platform (xHRM) that has been chosen a Strong Performer by Gartner for consecutive years. This latest mention in their AI disinformation research further reinforces Keepnet as a trusted, forward-looking partner for security and risk leaders.

What This Means for Our Customers and Partners

For our customers and partners, this recognition means:

• You’re already investing in a platform that analysts see as part of the next generation of security awareness and human risk management.
• Your move away from “tick-the-box training” toward continuous, behavior-driven, experiential learning is not just innovative. It’s aligned with the best current thinking in the market.
• You have a partner that is laser-focused on AI-era threats: deepfakes, disinformation, AI-powered social engineering, and cross-channel attacks that target your people, not just your infrastructure.

For us at Keepnet, this is a moment of pride, and a commitment to keep pushing the boundaries of human risk analytics, real-time nudging, and immersive simulations so CISOs, CIOs, CCOs, and CMOs can work together to protect their organizations from the new wave of AI-enabled attacks.

Leverage Keepnet Extended Human Risk Management Platform and Secure Behavior Management Against AI Driven Attacks

If you’d like to see how our Extended Human Risk Management Platform and Secure Behavior Management help defend against deepfakes, AI-powered social engineering and disinformation attacks, we’d be happy to walk you through real examples.

In the AI era, it’s no longer enough to tell people what to do once a year.

You need to guide them in the moment, when it matters most.

Sources

• Gartner G00847786: Cybersecurity Threat: Deepfake Identity Impersonation (Akif Khan, 28 May 2026).