A digital signer can clear identity verification at the start of a remote witnessing session and be replaced before the document is executed. Secured Signing has released the ID Trust Console, which re-tests the person on screen throughout a video signing meeting rather than once at the door.
The console appears as a live panel during any video signing or remote witnessing meeting. It runs three checks and displays their status to the host in realtime.
ID Verification confirms that the signer's government-issued ID and biometric face match the individual originally invited. It compares live facial biometrics against verified records throughout the session. Realify Deepfake Detection displays the pass or fail status of a live deepfake scan. On-Demand Re-Testing lets the host trigger an additional deepfake test at any point in the session.
Beyond the manual option, the console re-tests the signer at intervals for the duration of the meeting. If a scan raises a concern, the host receives an instant notification within the console. The signer can be removed immediately in a single action. The session does not need to be ended or restarted.
The gap being closed
The scenario Secured Signing describes is specific. A signer passes identity verification and a deepfake check before the meeting. They are then swapped out mid-session, by another person or an AI-generated deepfake.
Nothing in a conventional workflow catches that. The verification event and the signing event are separated by the length of the meeting, and only the first is tested.
Mike Eyal, chief executive at Secured Signing, said single checks no longer match the threat.
"Verifying someone's identity once, at the very start of a meeting, is no longer enough," Mr Eyal said. "Deepfake technology can convincingly impersonate a real person in realtime, and that risk doesn't disappear once someone has been approved to join a call. The ID Trust Console was designed to give our customers ongoing confidence and compliance, not just a single point-in-time check."
Evidence for the file
The compliance argument rests on the record rather than the detection. The console produces an audit trail showing that identity checks were carried out at every stage of the meeting, not only at sign-in. That record supports due diligence obligations.
Secured Signing says the checks run at no additional fee and require no setup or configuration. The console is automatically available within the Secured Signing dashboard. It applies to any video signing or remote witnessing meeting where a pre-meeting identity verification or Realify check has been completed.
The ID Trust Console is live now for all Secured Signing customers using video signing, remote witnessing and remote online notarisation.
Remote witnessing has become routine for statutory declarations, affidavits and land transactions across Australia and New Zealand. Each of those documents carries an evidentiary requirement that the person signing is who they claim to be.
The console does not change the legal test. It changes what the file can show about how the test was met.