1Kosmos Takes the Lead in Workforce Identity Verification
The 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification report offers compelling insights and underscores a critical reality: identity verification sits at the core of cybersecurity. This annual report—departing from the usual bi-annual cycle—highlights the escalating threat of identity-based attacks and the rapid technological evolution needed to counter them.
The report emphasizes growing concerns about identity fraud in critical business operations. In logistics and transportation, for example, false identity credentials create significant operational and liability risks. When unverified, untrained, or uninsured individuals operate commercial vehicles, companies face regulatory violations, safety incidents, and supply chain disruptions.
Recent headlines about Scattered Spider social engineering attacks and an FBI warning about North Korean operatives targeting American businesses through hiring fraud illuminate the current threat landscape. These incidents demonstrate that traditional identity verification processes are failing under modern attack methods.
Our Journey to Leader in Workforce Identity in One Year
Last year, 1Kosmos was selected from numerous competitors to join the Magic Quadrant alongside a handful of other vendors. Twelve months later—after tripling our annual recurring revenue (ARR) and securing $57 million in venture backing—we’ve emerged as the sole solution provider in the Challenger quadrant.
More significantly, 1Kosmos ranked Highest for Workforce Use Cases in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Identity Verification report. This recognition validates our core principle: securing the person, not just the credential, forms the foundation of modern enterprise security.
What Sets 1Kosmos Apart: The Trifecta of Trust
Gartner’s analysis highlighted three core strengths that differentiate 1Kosmos:
1. FedRAMP High Authorization
The 1Kosmos platform has achieved FedRAMP High Authorization —the highest security compliance level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. 1Kosmos is the only vendor holding this authorization while also being a Kantara-certified full-service Credential Service Provider (CSP). Since we offer the same platform to commercial customers, these organizations benefit from an identity verification solution that has passed rigorous testing against over 420 separate security controls.
2. Comprehensive Integration Ecosystem
While many identity verification vendors struggle with basic workforce integrations, 1Kosmos provides deep, prebuilt connectors across the identity and access management stack. We integrate seamlessly with Active Directory, Ping, CyberArk, Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and emerging tools for recruitment and IT service management.
3. Advanced Biometric Authentication
Our extensive face biometrics experience extends beyond one-time verification. We enable continuous, adaptive authentication that detects and responds to threats in real-time, creating a persistent security layer that evolves with your risk profile. No other vendor offers this comprehensive support for both identity verification and a reusable identity wallet for biometric authentication.
Innovation That Drives Results
Our privacy-by-design architecture represents more than marketing messaging—it’s a fundamental architectural advantage. By combining identity verification, passwordless authentication, and a distributed ledger for user-managed privacy, we’ve created a platform that rapidly adapts to new threats and requirements.
This approach recently earned recognition from KuppingerCole, who ranked 1Kosmos highest in innovation among identity verification vendors in their 2025 Leadership Compass for Identity Verification report. When two leading analyst firms independently validate your technical approach, it signals you’re solving problems correctly.
The results demonstrate our platform’s effectiveness: customers have reduced identity fraud by more than 40% within six months of deployment, while our global platform processes over one billion daily authentications for 75+ million users.
Solving Real Business Problems
The 1Kosmos platform defends against stolen and fake identities daily at some of the world’s largest organizations, whether addressing in-person or online identity fraud.
We protect major retailers from identity fraud at point-of-sale and equipment rental locations. We secure logins for one of the largest global business process outsourcing firms and support one of the world’s largest FIDO2 deployments.
Our solutions protect healthcare workers and secure patient information for medical service providers, while enabling workforce logins at major financial services firms worldwide.
The 1Kosmos Difference: Complete Digital Identity
Combining identity verification, passwordless authentication, and user-controlled privacy in a single platform that supports both customers and workers delivers concrete business value.
This approach provides more than enhanced security against hiring fraud and social engineering attacks on IT service desks—it improves user experience. When employees can securely access all work applications through a single, verified digital identity, productivity increases while security risk decreases.
We’re the only company providing users with a digital identity wallet they control, enabling convenient and secure access to enterprise applications like Microsoft, Saviynt, ServiceNow, and Epic.
For privileged access management, our platform ensures that access to mission-critical systems remains tied to verified, identity-backed biometrics.
Speed of Deployment, Strength of Security
For enterprise decision-makers, 1Kosmos delivers these capabilities through rapidly deployable cloud services. While point solutions can require weeks or months to implement, our platform typically deploys in hours to days. In a threat environment where speed matters, this deployment advantage can mean the difference between preventing an attack and becoming a headline.
Looking Forward
Gartner’s recognition validates our approach while reinforcing our responsibility to continue pushing boundaries and exploring new possibilities in identity security. As threats evolve, our defenses must evolve accordingly. The criminals behind Scattered Spider and similar operations are sophisticated and well-funded—our response must be equally sophisticated and agile.
We’re building more than improved identity verification; we’re constructing the foundation for a more secure digital economy where trust is verifiable, privacy is preserved, and organizations can confidently embrace digital transformation without compromising security or convenience.
The future of enterprise security begins with identity. And identity security starts with verified trust.
