India, Sept. 28 -- Deepfakes are becoming harder for enterprise security teams to treat as an edge case. The Gartner deepfake survey found that 41% of CISOs reported at least one social engineering incident involving a deepfake during an employee audio call in the past 12 months. Another 36% reported a deepfake incident during a video call.

The findings come from a March-May 2026 survey of 297 senior cybersecurity leaders. More broadly, the survey shows how AI is making social engineering more convincing, more personalised and harder to detect using familiar warning signs.

Deepfakes are only one part of a broader threat picture. Seventy-nine percent of surveyed CISOs reported at least one phishing, spear-phishing or business email compr...