Cybersecurity pro demonstrates IAD importance for facial recognition at RSAC 2026
Cybersecurity pro demonstrates IAD importance for facial recognition at RSAC 2026
Publish Date: 2026-04-02 11:16:00
Source Domain: www.biometricupdate.com
Jake Moore believes the identity stack is broken. But instead of just willing his belief into reality, the global cybersecurity advisor for ESET demonstrated why his assertion has truth.
At the RSAC 2026 Conference in San Francisco, Moore delivered an entertaining and enlightening session titled “Facing Reality: Hacking Facial Recognition” that illuminated how AI tools are affecting security. His demonstration clearly illustrated the importance of biometric Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and Injection Attack Detection (IAD).
He did this by conducting tests and experiments. Opening a bank account using an AI-enabled false identity, for example, or tricking a facial recognition system into believing that he is Tom Cruise. He conducted these tests — with the aid of a lawyer friend to avoid legal trouble – on institutions that the general public interacts with.
In Moore’s opinion, the market has adopted facial recognition technology “a little bit too early.” He wanted to make a point about how exposed people have become in an era of affordable facial recognition and off‑the‑shelf AI tools. Prior to ESET, Moore worked for 14 years in the UK police’s Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime Unit.
Experimenting with bank accounts, live CCTV feeds, with Amy’s legal help
So, with the blessing of a lawyer friend named “Amy,” he ran a simple experiment. He uploaded Amy’s face into PimEyes — a public facial‑search engine — to see where her image appeared online. The results, he told the audience, were a reminder of how easily a stranger could gather material for social engineering attacks without technical know-how.
From there, Moore escalated the demonstration. He bought a pair of Meta Ray‑Ban smart glasses, the kind with a built-in camera and real‑time information features. Then he paired them with a colleague running Corsight, a commercial facial recognition system.
As he walked around his office, the colleague fed…
