Reality Defender strikes deal to provide deepfake detection to French Orange

AI security firm Reality Defender will provide its deepfake detection capabilities to Orange Business, the enterprise division of French telecommunications operator Orange.

The deal integrates multimodal deepfake detection – including audio, video, image and document analysis – directly into Orange Business’s existing communication services, including video conferencing, contact center platforms and voice telephony. The company serves over 7,000 enterprise customers across more than 100,000 locations worldwide.

Orange announced the deal during its Orange Business Summit, held in mid-March. The move comes as AI-generated voices and synthetic media are increasingly being used in corporate fraud, including impersonation of executives on internal calls and identity spoofing in contact centers.

Reality Defender’s technology uses an API-based architecture that runs in real time without human review, enabling detection to fit within existing workflows rather than as a separate system.

“This partnership embeds detection where it belongs: inside the infrastructure organizations already depend on every day,” says Ben Colman, CEO and co-founder of Reality Defender.

Alongside deepfake detection, Orange Business is also introducing branded calling, which displays verified caller identity, as well as AI-augmented customer service and agentic telephony tools under its “Intelligent Together” offering.

Extends detection capabilities

Orange says that bringing AI capabilities to enterprise communications, such as agentic AI, requires building trust into every layer. Reality Defender agrees.

Colman believes that agentic fraud has stopped being a theoretical concern and that deepfakes and agentic attacks are arriving at a pace that no human review can keep up with.

“Agentic fraud doesn’t arrive one incident at a time – it runs across thousands of touchpoints simultaneously,” the CEO writes in a LinkedIn post published last week. “The defense has to match the attack surface, which means operating without human latency across real-time communications, identity verification, and narrative intelligence at once.”

The U.S.-based firm has recently integrated products from four new partners that extend its detection capabilities into narrative intelligence, voice security, managed security services and agentic AI.

The companies include Alethea, which offers AI-powered narrative threat intelligence; Illuma, a voice biometrics company that helps authenticate callers across contact centers for financial services; Netarx, which detects deepfakes by aggregating metadata; and Charm Security, a 2026 RSAC Innovation Sandbox finalist that builds agentic AI workforces for fraud and security teams.

The goal is to provide deepfake detection at every conceivable point of entry, according to Colman.

“Each integration is a point at which detection can run without adding friction to legitimate workflows,” he says. “The goal has always been for deepfake detection to work the way spam filtering works – you don’t think about it. It’s just there.”

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call centers  |  deepfake detection  |  deepfakes  |  generative AI  |  Illuma Labs  |  Orange  |  Reality Defender  |  synthetic data