Our vision

A world of digital integrity

About us

As the world’s leading authority on the authentication and verification of digital media, we exist to protect enterprises, governments, and media from AI-powered deception, deepfake fraud, and identity manipulation – because trust in digital content is no longer guaranteed.

At the intersection of cyber security, digital forensics and AI

GetReal Security brings together a unique blend of multi-disciplinary domain expertise to protect organizations from a new generation of attack vectors and rebuild trust in digital communications.

Expertise Areas

• Cybersecurity
• Digital Forensics
• Artificial Intelligence

Meet the team

• 100+ Collective years of experience in cybersecurity across our leadership team.
• 50+ Collective years of experience at the forefront of digital forensics.
• 15+ Languages spoken by our global team, spread across six countries.
• 6 Babies born since the company’s founding, with more than 20 pets adopted too.

Team Members

Matthew Moynahan
CEO
Matt is the CEO of GetReal Security. He is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of experience.
Read more | Cybersecurity

Dr. Hany Farid
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer
Hany is the foremost expert on deepfakes and manipulated media and the co-founder of GetReal Security.
Read more | Digital forensics

Jim Brennan
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Jim is the Chief Product and Technology Officer for GetReal Security, where he leads all aspects of product strategy.
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Mark Priebe
Chief Revenue Officer
Mark Priebe is the Chief Revenue Officer of GetReal Security, where he leads the company’s global commercial strategy, revenue growth, and market expansion.
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Emmanuelle Saliba
Chief Investigative Officer
Emmanuelle is the Chief Investigative Officer at GetReal Security, where she leads efforts to detect and expose digital deception, including AI-generated deepfakes.
Read more | Digital investigation

Tom Cross
Head of Threat Research
Tom Cross is the Head of Threat Research at GetReal Security, where he tracks threat actors.
Read more | Threat Research

Dr. Tina Nikoukhah
Vice President of Research
Tina is the Vice President of Research at GetReal Security, leading a team of research scientists.
Read more | Digital forensics

David Rines
VP of Engineering
David is the Vice President of Engineering at GetReal Security, where he leads the build and scaling of the company's core product platform.
Read more | Cybersecurity

Backed by

• Ballistic Ventures: A VC firm dedicated to funding and incubating the cybersecurity innovations that are saving our digital world.

• Forgepoint: Backs transformative cybersecurity, AI, and infrastructure software companies protecting the digital future.

• K2 Access Fund: A co-investment venture fund that invests in early-stage startups from Seed to Series A/B/C rounds.

• Evolution Equity Partners: A VC firm led by technology entrepreneurs who leverage deep sector expertise to help entrepreneurs develop market-leading companies.

• Cisco Investments: The corporate development and venture capital arm of Cisco, investing in enterprise technology Series A and beyond.

• IQT: A non-profit strategic investor that accelerates the development of cutting-edge technologies for U.S. government agencies that keep our nation safe.

• Capital One Ventures: The strategic venture capital arm of Capital One, investing in startups focused on data, technology, and financial services.

Our Story

November 30, 2022

GetReal Security is founded and incubated by Ballistic Ventures.
Hany Farid joins Ted Schlein to create a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting organizations from malicious synthetic content.

August 30, 2024

Veteran cybersecurity leader Matt Moynahan appointed as CEO.
With over twenty years of industry experience, Matt sees the existential threat to governments and enterprises globally and joins the GetReal Security mission.

February 1, 2025

Launch of GetReal Inspect.
The introduction of the first advanced service that conducts deep multi-dimensional forensics analysis across image, audio, and video for the detection of malicious media.

March 26, 2025

Announced $17.5M Series A led by Forgepoint Capital.
Leading cybersecurity investors Forgepoint, Ballistic, and Evolution Equity join forces with Cisco, IQT, and Capital One to fund the build-out of GetReal’s go-to-market and technology platform.

In the news

Blog – October 2026

GetReal co-founder and Chief Science Officer Dr. Hany Farid joined CBS Sunday Morning this week for a wide-ranging conversation with Ted Koppel about deepfakes, AI-generated imagery, and what happens when we can no longer simply trust what we see and hear.

Blog – August 2026

AI voice phishing is changing the economics of social engineering. This article examines the Wall Street attacks and what financial institutions can do to verify authenticity beyond login.

Blog – August 2026

The EU AI Act’s Article 50 introduces new transparency requirements for AI-generated and AI-manipulated content. Here’s what organizations need to know about compliance, machine detectability, and the limits of provenance technologies.

Blog – July 2026

A routine software engineering interview revealed how AI-powered identity fraud is changing the security risks of remote hiring. Learn how what seemed like a typical hiring process left the interviewer asking whether they had been targeted by a North Korean hacker.

Press Release – July 2026

GetReal Security has been recognized as a Market Shaper in the 2026 Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant for Deepfake Detection—Startup Vendors. Positioned farthest on the Potential for Market Disruption axis, the company continues to advance enterprise protection against AI-powered identity attacks through multimodal deepfake detection, continuous identity verification, forensic intelligence, and real-time policy enforcement.

Press Release – May 2026

GetReal Protect becomes the first platform to offer a holistic, real-time solution that combines deepfake detection, impersonation detection and continuous identity verification across voice and video.

Blog – May 2026

GetReal Protect is now the first platform to combine deepfake detection, impersonation detection, and continuous identity verification in real time. Learn more.

News – January 2026

"Threat actors know they can get KYC-validated bank accounts using deepfakes." Tom Cross breaks down the real capabilities of today’s deepfake tools and what they mean for KYC and identity security.

News – January 2026

See how AI images claiming to reveal Minneapolis ICE agent’s face spread confusion.

News – December 2025

Hyper-realistic AI deepfakes of deceased figures are flooding social platforms, accelerating identity abuse and eroding trust in what people see online.

News – December 2025

We're constantly seeing examples of real-world social engineering attacks using GenAI-powered voice impersonation. On Friday, the FBI issued a new warning that cybercriminals are successfully impersonating senior U.S. government officials with faked voice messages and texts, often exploiting familiarity and urgency to gain trust.

News – November 2025

The BBC reports on the rise of AI-generated video “slop” and the new tricks that hide deepfakes in plain sight. GetReal’s Co-Founder Dr. Hany Farid shares how low-resolution footage and compression can mask synthetic distortions — and why detecting truth is getting harder.

News – October 2025

OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real.

Press Release – September 2025

GetReal Security Advances Continuous Identity Protection to Combat Deepfakes.

News – August 2025

Hany Farid joins NBC News to unpack the controversy around Will Smith’s concert footage, where fans accused him of using AI to fake cheering crowds.

News – August 2025

“This is one of the greatest—and I mean this without hyperbole—one of the greatest unmanaged risks that I’ve ever seen in the history of cyber,” Matt Moynahan, CEO, tells Expert Insights.
"You can see it coming. And it’s sprinkling, it’s not raining; there’s not enough people actually talking about it now."

News – June 2025

Pulse 2.0 featured our CEO Matt Moynahan, in which he shared how GetReal was built to meet the rise of AI-powered deception. With deep forensics roots, enterprise-ready tools, and $17.5M in funding, we help organizations verify what’s real before it’s trusted.

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