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...
1Kosmos Takes the Lead in Workforce Identity Verification
When a company's own founders and team members dig deeper into their pockets to invest more of their personal money, you know something big is happening. That's exactly what just occurred at 1Kosmo...
Founders and Team Members Are Investing Their Own Personal Capital in the Series B
When great minds and visionary leaders come together, good things can happen. Better yet, when they come together with a shared interest to solve a challenge and bring along specialized teams with ...
AuthenticID and 1Kosmos: A Shared Vision to Unify Identity Proofing and Authentication
Karla interviews Hemen Vimadalal, CEO at 1Kosmos and an investor in a number of cybersecurity businesses. Hemen talks about his experience with identity theft and how that has driven him to create ...
1Kosmos CEO Hemen Vimadalal Podcast Interview with Karla Reffold
Part 3
In parts 1 and 2 of this series I discussed the transition underway in the IAM industry to passwordless authentication and the reasons why 1Kosmos has taken the path to passwordless throu...
Identity Based Authentication: Conflux of ID & Authentication
Part 2
In part 1, I provided some needed context for moving from passwords to identity for user authentication. Now, let’s take a deeper look, and we’ll start with identity in the offline world....
Identity Based Authentication- Eliminating Passwords
Part 1
There seems to come a point in time when all industries hit an inflection point - where the old ways of doing things cede to the new.
We’ve reached this point in Identity and access ma...
Identity Based Authentication - The Transformation of IAM
Today, I’m pleased to announce that my new venture 1Kosmos is exiting stealth mode with a $15 million investment from ForgePoint Capital. With this Series A funding and our brand-new advisory board...