About GoFirm
Identity is being compromised.
We focus on authority.
Why Authority?
Every retail bank customer already understands this model. You initiate a transfer from your laptop. A push notification arrives on your mobile device. You confirm with Face ID, and the money transfers. You decline, and it does not.
Your bank enforces that confirmation on a £500 personal transfer. No equivalent control exists on large institutional transactions. Or when an AI agent executes a trade. Or when an apparently privileged user accesses sensitive infrastructure.
Six structural reasons explain why no equivalent control was ever built:
Enterprise systems were designed around a login model. Authenticate once, operate freely inside. The assumption was rarely questioned.
Security investment went into detection and response. Twenty-five years of SIEM, EDR, and SOC operations assume breaches will occur and optimise for identifying them quickly. Preventing authority execution was not the focus.
Authority workflows span multiple systems. A personal bank transfer is a single step. A CFO instruction flowing through email, analyst, ERP, and payment gateway is a chain. The complexity made enforcement feel harder than it was.
Organisations assumed insiders were trustworthy. Controls focused on external attackers and malware, not impersonation, social engineering, or misuse of legitimate access.
The retail confirmation model required smartphones, biometric authentication, and push notification infrastructure. Those tools only matured in the last decade. Enterprise architecture has not kept pace.
The problem was not framed clearly. Vendors addressed identity management, privileged access, and fraud detection. The simpler underlying question, whether execution authority was confirmed before the action fired, was largely unasked.
What GoFirm is
GoFirm is an authority verification control.
A designated human authority confirms a consequential action on their registered device with their biometric before it executes. That confirmation is single-use, out of band, signed, and permanently recorded.
System agnostic. Identity independent. Operational on any stack. No dependency on any specific identity platform, cloud provider, or infrastructure.
Authority, consent, and refusal are either enforced in the architecture or they are not enforced at all.
What GoFirm is not
Not a security monitoring tool. Not a detection engine. Not another compliance layer.
Not a replacement for identity or access management. GoFirm operates at the execution layer, after identity has already been verified.
Not an AI threat detection tool. GoFirm does not analyse behaviour or flag anomalies. It requires human confirmation before specific actions execute.
Not a general audit or compliance platform. GoFirm produces a signed record of human authority confirmation. What organisations do with that record is their own governance decision.
Not a silver bullet. GoFirm closes the execution authority gap. It operates alongside, not instead of, detection, monitoring, and response capabilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Microsoft Authenticator not already do this?
No. Microsoft Authenticator confirms the person logging in. GoFirm confirms the designated authority sanctioning a specific action.
Those are often different people. The employee initiating a transfer is not the CFO who should authorise it. Microsoft Authenticator has no concept of authority assignment, action type governance, or multi-approver enforcement. It confirms a session. GoFirm confirms a decision.
GoFirm also operates across any technology stack, not within a single identity provider’s ecosystem.
What about the friction?
A biometric confirmation on a phone takes approximately three seconds.
GoFirm does not fire on routine actions. It fires on the actions you configure as requiring confirmation. Routine agent operations, low-consequence queries, and reversible actions pass through without interruption.
The relevant question is not whether three seconds is friction. It is what level of friction is proportionate to an action that could move significant funds, modify production infrastructure, or authorise a bulk data extraction.
Can it be bypassed?
The confirmation requires a biometric on a physically registered, hardware-bound device via an out-of-band channel. Stolen credentials do not satisfy it. Credential phishing does not satisfy it. A SIM swap does not satisfy it. A remote attacker cannot complete the confirmation without physical access to the registered device.
GoFirm is designed to close the execution authority gap within a broader security architecture, not replace other controls.
Does it work with our existing systems?
GoFirm is system agnostic. It does not require any specific identity platform, cloud provider, or technology infrastructure. Your HR directory, or a CSV file, is sufficient to define your authority registry. GoFirm works alongside your existing stack.
How quickly can we deploy it?
Human workflows: same day for most organisations. Connect your HR directory, configure action types, invite your people.
SDK integration for agent workflows: a single function call at the execution boundary.
Deep Guard for infrastructure: connector deployment per target resource type. Timelines vary by environment complexity.
What data does GoFirm store?
GoFirm does not store raw biometric data. No biometric template or biometric input is retained on GoFirm servers. Confirmation events are logged with identity references and timestamps.
The HR directory remains the system of record for personnel identity. GoFirm references it and does not replicate it beyond what the confirmation request requires.
Is it GDPR compliant?
GoFirm is designed with GDPR compliance in mind. Our privacy policy and data handling documentation are available on request and will be published in full before launch.
For specific questions about data processing, controller and processor responsibilities, or compliance documentation, please contact us directly.
What about MFA fatigue attacks?
GoFirm’s single-use confirmation architecture addresses this directly. Each request is tied to a single action instance and cannot be reused. A second attempt for the same action instance is blocked and triggers an administrator alert.
The design eliminates the repeated-bombardment approach that featured in several high-profile incidents by making each confirmation single-use.