Why Askuria exists
Know instantly who you're talking to, without changing how you talk
On the phone, by email, on WhatsApp or Teams — with the proof to back it up. Bringing the trust of a face-to-face meeting to every digital exchange, instantly.
Ten years of cybersecurity budgets have made systems solid. Identity, access, sessions: all locked down. But none of those controls say whether the person on the other end of the line really is who they claim to be — and that's exactly the angle attackers found first.
The world has changed
What breaks instruction integrity at scale?
01 — Familiar channels
Appearance creates legitimacy
Voice, SMS, messaging apps, email: the instruction looks legitimate, the environment feels familiar.
02 — Secured systems
Security creates confidence
MFA/IAM, PAM, SIEM, financial systems: actions flow through secured systems, the environment feels safe and standard.
03 — Pressure signals
Context makes execution feel justified
Urgency, authority, timing, business pressure: pressure overrides internal verification, often too complex and not scalable.
Everything supporting execution is secured. The trust that triggers it is not.
The new attack surface
Human trust has become the new attack surface
Attackers are moving beyond system compromise. They need to create enough trust to get people to execute.
Compromise systems
Impersonate authority
74 %
of analyzed security incidents involved human interaction
Verizon DBIR, 2024
3 sec
of audio are now enough to clone a voice convincingly
McAfee Labs, 2023
+680 %
increase in voice cloning fraud attacks, 2022 to 2023
Brightside AI, 2025
$3.04B
Business Email Compromise losses reported in 2025
FBI IC3 Annual Report
The blind spot
The Instruction Trust Gap
Critical execution still happens before the human origin of the instruction is independently proven.
Existing security — validates the environment
Critical execution — based on assumed human authority
What guides every product decision
Four principles, non-negotiable
Trust is born in the physical world
A group first recognizes each other in person, through a simple QR code at a meeting. That identity then becomes verifiable remotely, at any time — as if you were still face to face.
Whoever doubts, verifies
No prior authorization, no form: any employee can trigger a verification on their own initiative. And the organization commits to protecting whoever refuses to execute without validation.
Simple on the surface, deep underneath
Every organization sets its own bar — who can verify, for what amounts, with what co-validation circuits. But the base gesture stays the same: verify an identity in seconds.
The burden of proof changes sides
Today, it's up to the potential victim to detect the fraud and dare to say no to their boss. Askuria reverses that dynamic: it's now the attacker who has to prove an identity they don't have.
Who we build this for
- The accountant under pressure, asked by their CEO for an unusual operation on a Friday evening.
- The elderly person convinced they're talking to their usual bank advisor.
- The support agent who has to authenticate a customer based on a birth date anyone can find in two clicks.
What we refuse to become
- A replacement for existing tools. Askuria adds itself on top; it replaces nothing.
- A universal digital identity provider. We authenticate live conversations, not documents.
- A product that needs a manual. If the user has to learn something, we've failed.