Inside the Entrust Fraud Lab: The Evolution of Identity Fraud in Testing
In this special episode of Tried and Tested, host Isabelle Gonthier, PhD, ICE-CCP visits the Entrust Fraud Lab for a closer look at how identity fraud is evolving and what it means for high-stakes testing. This video-first episode takes viewers inside a hands-on lab environment, and listeners are encouraged to tune in to the video version to see the fraud techniques and demonstrations discussed throughout the conversation.
Joined by Simon Horswell, Fraud Solution Specialist at Entrust, Isabelle explores how fraud techniques can be studied, reproduced, and better understood before they affect live programs. As deepfakes, injection attacks, presentation attacks, and digital identity tools become more accessible and more sophisticated, Simon explains why assessment organizations need layered defenses, strong identity verification, and a full-candidate-journey view of test security. The conversation covers document fraud, remote identity verification, fraud lab research, machine learning signals, deepfake detection, balancing security with candidate experience, human review, data protection, and what testing can learn from sectors such as border control, finance, and fintech.
What you’ll learn:
- How fraud labs study, reproduce, and test attacks in a controlled environment
- Why identity fraud has evolved from physical document attacks to deepfakes and injection attacks
- What presentation attacks and virtual camera injection attacks mean for remote testing
- Why fraud prevention requires layered defenses instead of one “silver bullet”
- How assessment organizations can balance strong security with a reasonable candidate experience
- Why identity verification should extend across the full candidate journey, not just check-in
- What testing programs can learn from border control, finance, fintech, and digital identity regulation
Who should listen:
- Assessment and credentialing leaders responsible for test security
- Remote proctoring and exam delivery teams managing identity verification
- Certification and licensure programs using high-stakes online testing
- Security, operations, and compliance teams focused on fraud prevention
- Organizations evaluating deepfake, injection attack, or digital identity risks
- Candidate experience teams balancing security, accessibility, and user friction
- Leaders looking to understand how fraud tactics are changing across industries
Simon Horswell
Fraud Specialist Senior Manager & Expert Document Examiner at Entrust
An expert in ID document security and fraud with over 25 years’ experience, Simon plays a key role in Entrust’s product development strategy. Simon is responsible for managing the Fraud Lab team and advising Product. This includes giving expert advice and training on recognising fraud signals, deep-dive investigations, research and generating training datasets, helping businesses to reduce cost of customer acquisition, enhance fraud protection, and satisfy global compliance needs.
Prior to Entrust, Simon worked as a Document Expert and international trainer with Foster & Freeman Ltd, working closely with the forensic equipment manufacturer on new and existing products, and providing training and advice to police, immigration and forensic departments, and banks and document manufacturers all over the world.
Simon has also served as an Expert Document Examiner and trainer for several years at the UK’s National Document Fraud Unit (NDFU), sharing his knowledge with embassies, consulates, immigration offices and police departments all over the world. His duties also required him to give expert testimony in court.
Simon started his career in the security sector as an Immigration Officer in the UK Immigration Service and the Forgery Team at Gatwick Airport.