AI Voice Clones and Rogue Enrolments – How are we locking this down?Solved

That is terrifying. We’ve been seeing a spike in those “AI-vishing” (voice phishing) attempts too. The reality in 2026 is that if a human is part of the “approval” chain for security, that chain is broken.

You need to move away from bypass codes or simple credentials and shift to Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA).

If you set up a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) integration, the device has to possess a unique, hardware-bound certificate to even talk to your server. Even if an attacker tricks a user into giving up every password they have, they can’t “clone” a hardware-bound certificate onto a rogue device. It takes the “human error” factor out of the enrolment phase entirely.

Thanks for the reality check. I think you’re right—relying on a manager to “verify” a voice over the phone is a losing battle now. I’ve looked into SCEP briefly before but always thought it was too much overhead for a medium-sized fleet.

Does Hexnode make the deployment of these certificates relatively hands-off for the end-user? My biggest fear is that by making it more secure, I’m going to end up with 500 support tickets from remote workers who can’t get their certificates to “handshake” properly.

I had the same worry, but it’s actually surprisingly automated once the initial integration is live. If you use the Hexnode SCEP Gateway, the portal handles the certificate signing request (CSR) on behalf of the device.

The user doesn’t actually “do” anything. The certificate is pushed silently as part of the initial configuration profile. If the device doesn’t have that specific certificate issued by your CA, it simply gets rejected by your mail/Wi-Fi/VPN gateways. It’s the only way to sleep soundly knowing an AI voice clone can’t talk its way past your firewall. I’d highly recommend testing it out with a small group first!