Kumanu Maintains HITRUST r2 Certification, Demonstrating Ongoing Commitment to the Highest Level of Information Protection Assurance

Ann Arbor, Michigan – April 11, 2025 – Kumanu, a leading provider of purpose-powered workforce wellbeing solutions, today announced that its Purposeful Wellbeing Platform, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), has once again earned HITRUST r2 Certified status for information security—maintaining its position among a select group of organizations meeting the industry's highest standards for data protection and risk management.

HITRUST r2 Certification demonstrates that Kumanu’s Purposeful Wellbeing Platform has met demanding regulatory compliance and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Kumanu in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protection challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.

“We’ve always believed that trust is earned—and that it has to be sustained,” said Vic Strecher, PhD, MPH, Founder and CEO of Kumanu. “Maintaining HITRUST r2 Certification reflects our ongoing commitment to safeguarding the data of the individuals and organizations we serve. It’s one more way we show that we don’t just meet standards—we keep meeting them, year after year.”

A HITRUST executive underscored the importance of certification in today’s complex data environment:

“HITRUST certification is globally recognized as validation that information security and privacy controls are effective and compliant with various regulations. HITRUST certification is considered the gold standard because of the comprehensiveness and applicability of the control requirements, depth of the assurance process, and level of oversight that ensures accuracy,” said Jeremy Huval, Chief Innovation Officer at HITRUST.