The Real Identity Blog

Since announcing Socure’s HITRUST certification, we’ve received several inquiries regarding the reasons we pursued it, the difficulty we had obtaining it, and what we’re going to do with it. All good questions. We’ll do our best to address the top inquiries below.

My wife, a brilliant numbers person, spent many years in the classroom as a teacher, until I finally convinced her to forgo the incredible pay and astounding benefits in exchange for life as a highly-in-demand math tutor. As a tutor, she typically gets two kinds of kids: the ones who can use a little (or a lot of) help, and the ones who are already killing it but have parents that want them to kill it even harder.

I’ve been in the security space for decades. The bulk of that time has been in identity and access management (IAM). I’ve even published a McGraw-Hill book on the subject. IAM is my baby. But my time in IAM has always been focusing on Day One stuff, as in, I know who you are, so now I’m going to provision you to the apps you can use as part of your role. Recently, I got an invite to do Day Zero stuff, as in, I don't provision you until I know you are truly who you say you are. Day Zero is ID verification. So I've moved my focus a little farther up the stack, touching the identities before they're fully formed.  I made this career change because 1) I wanted a change of scene, and 2) Sunil Mahdu.

Last week was very exciting at Socure as we announced our latest funding round. In the short time since this news went public, I’ve received a number of questions about Socure. People are inquiring about things such as what do you solve for, what is your market position, can you share your future goals, how do you utilize AI, etc.