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Capability

Know when a call is pushing past your controls

Map your approval thresholds, verification requirements, and escalation rules to calls in progress. Diopter flags asks that route around your controls before an exception is granted.

30 minutes · NDA-safe · Built for security and fraud teams at private equity firms and large enterprises
$16.6B
total fraud losses in 2024, up 33%
Source · FBI IC3
$25.6M
lost when approval controls were bypassed on one call
Source · Arup, 2024
~$100M
in losses after a help desk social engineering attack
Source · MGM, 2023
The risk

Where policy gaps are exploited

Urgency that makes policy feel like an obstacle

Closing deadlines, executive requests, and emergency framing push staff to skip the verification step that would catch the fraud.

Approval chains that get shortened

A dual-approval requirement or a manager sign-off disappears when the ask arrives with enough authority and pressure.

Out-of-channel and out-of-band asks

Payment changes, credential resets, and access grants requested through a channel your policy does not support.

The attack playbook

How a policy bypass attack unfolds

These attacks move through a recognizable sequence. Diopter scores that sequence while the call is still in progress.

01
Authority

Authority is established

The caller claims executive status or organizational authority to frame the request as sanctioned from above.

02
Urgency

Urgency makes controls feel costly

A closing window or a critical situation reframes your approval requirements as a risk to the deal.

03
Isolation

The request moves off-channel

The ask arrives through a channel your policy does not cover, removing the normal gatekeepers.

04
Escalation

The exception is normalized

A first small bypass sets the precedent for a larger one that follows immediately after.

05
The ask

The action is taken

A transfer, a reset, or an access grant goes through on the strength of a policy exception that was never authorized.

How Diopter helps

What Diopter looks for

01

Policy threshold monitoring

Diopter maps your wire thresholds, MFA reset requirements, and dual-approval rules to the call, flagging asks that cross them without the required steps.

02

Out-of-policy framing detection

Detect the specific conversational patterns that precede a bypass: urgency, authority framing, and channel deviation.

03

Escalation and exception tracking

Surface asks that skip normal approval chains or request a one-time exception to a standing control.

Where it shows up

One capability across every call where trust moves.

The same detection applies wherever an attacker uses a call to push money, access, or a hire through.

Financial wire fraud

Flag wires that cross approval thresholds without the required second sign-off.

Executive impersonation

Surface authority plays that push staff to bypass their normal approval requirements.

Help desk and IT support

Catch credential resets and access unlocks pushed through without the required verification steps.

Vendor payments

Hold banking-detail changes that arrive outside the verified channel your policy requires.

The verdict

From signals to one action your team can take.

What drove this verdict
  • Approval pathBypassed
  • VerificationIncomplete
  • ConversationPressure rising
Verdict
Hold for policy review

Diopter holds the out-of-policy ask for review before an exception is granted.

Why Diopter

Most tools check one clip. Diopter reads the whole call.

Point-in-time detectors answer a single question: is this video or voice fake? A good clone passes that test. Diopter scores the whole conversation, the authority claims, the manufactured urgency, the push to go off-channel, and the escalating ask, then raises a verdict on the pattern a single frame cannot show.

An attacker who knows your policies can still exploit the gap between what policy requires and what pressure delivers. Diopter closes that gap in the call.

Deployment & trust

Light to deploy, clear about what runs where.

Pilot in days, roll wider through MDM, and keep sensitive call media inside your perimeter.

Deployment & trust
  • On-prem and hybrid deployments supported
  • No caller-side install
  • Bot or bot-free capture
  • Configurable retention, including ZDR
  • MDM rollout (Intune, Jamf)
  • SOC 2 Type II in progress
Common questions

What security and fraud teams ask first.

Walkthrough · 30 min · NDA-safe

Walk an attack arc with Diopter.

In 30 minutes, we will replay a real deepfake incident, show the signals Diopter would score, and map the verdict your team could act on.