Digital identity in the age of AI fraud with Jordan Burris [353]

Today we're speaking with Jordan Burris, Head of Public Sector at Socure, about digital identity and AI-driven fraud: how you prove a person is who they say they are when stolen data, deepfakes and AI agents are all in play.

Jordan leads Socure's work helping government agencies combat identity fraud and strengthen digital trust. Before joining Socure he served as Chief of Staff to the U.S. Federal CIO at the White House, helping oversee more than $90 billion in federal IT spending and advance national cybersecurity and technology priorities. He brings more than 15 years of experience in government technology.

In this conversation: applying to the White House through USA Jobs, living through the SolarWinds response and the push toward zero trust, why knowledge-based security questions are an open door, why you should assume your personal information is already stolen, how the cost of a sophisticated fraud attack fell from more than $20,000 to pennies, why the trade-off between security and user experience is a false choice, synthetic identities on video calls, telling a legitimate AI agent from a hostile one, and what happens when AI meets quantum computing.

Learn more at https://www.socure.com/

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