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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 as a companion agent that verifies the interview environment — including the native desktop layer a browser lock can't reach — without locking anything down. Coverage is tool-agnostic, so it isn't defeated by a rename or a new build.
And because integrity has an off-device half, Capifiq pairs detection with interviewing methodology to deter the help no software can catch. 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
- Detects any on-device assistance and deters 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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