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Capifiq vs lockdown browsers and process scanners.
Lockdown browsers restrict what a candidate can do in the tab; process scanners match running software against a catalog of known cheating tools. Both are useful, and both share a blind spot the newest tools are built to exploit. Here's the difference.
What they do
Restrict the tab, or match a list.
Lockdown browsers, the kind used in academic proctoring, stop tab-switching, copy-paste, and other actions inside the browser. Process scanners take a different tack: they inspect names, signatures, or window titles and compare them to a catalog of known cheating tools.
Both approaches are legitimate and can raise the bar. But both live at a level the newest tools were engineered to slip past.
These tools have their place. Lockdown is reasonable for supervised exams, and a denylist catches the obvious. Capifiq isn't a dig at them: it covers the layer and the tools they can't.
The gap
Where restriction and lists fall short.
Today's AI-assist tools are native, renamed, and often off-device entirely: exactly what a browser lock and a catalog can't reach.
Blind to native apps
A lockdown browser lives inside the tab. It has no window into native desktop applications or the wider system where modern overlays run.
A step behind by list
A scanner only knows catalogued tools. A renamed executable or a brand-new build simply isn't on the list yet.
Restrictive, and still off-device-blind
Locking the browser frustrates honest candidates and still can't see a phone, an earpiece, or a person off-camera.
What Capifiq adds
- Direct verification of the interview environment
- Deterministic, timestamped, sealed evidence: not a score
- Coverage that isn't limited to a catalogued list of tools
- Detect any on-device assistance; deter off-device help
The difference
Verify the environment, don't just restrict it.
Capifiq runs the interview itself, and checks the whole environment around it, including the desktop a browser lock can't reach, without locking anything down. It catches tools by what they do, so a rename or a fresh build doesn't get past it.
And because integrity has an off-device half, Capifiq pairs detection with the Question Engine, which builds questions the help no software can catch cannot usefully answer. Every finding is deterministic, timestamped, and sealed.
Side by side
Lockdown & scanners vs Capifiq.
Lockdown browsers & scanners
- Restrict the browser or match a known-tool list
- Blind to native desktop applications
- Renamed or brand-new tools can evade the list
- A lockdown restricts the honest candidate too
- Can't reach off-device help at all
Capifiq
- Verifies the interview environment as a companion
- Sees the native layer a browser lock can't
- Coverage isn't defeated by rename or a new build
- No lockdown: an integrity check, not a restriction
- Surfaces covered on-device activity and outpaces off-device help
Different layer, different job. A lockdown or a denylist handles the obvious; Capifiq verifies the environment those tools can't see, and adds the off-device deterrence neither reaches.
Questions
Common questions.
Does Capifiq lock down the candidate's browser or machine?
Does it just match a list of known tools?
Can a process scanner catch renamed or new tools?
What about help that never touches the device?
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