1Kosmos named a Challenger in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Identity Verification (2025)
Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant report for Identity Verification evaluated 11 vendors on ability to execute and completeness of vision. 1Kosmos earned Challenger status, recognized for FedRAMP High authorization and deep prebuilt integrations across workforce IAM systems.
"1Kosmos has extensive experience with face biometrics for authentication, leveraging the selfie taken during an IDV event. It has demonstrated performance and scalability by successfully processing high volumes of these authentications in a range of workforce use cases."
Gartner Magic Quadrant: Identity Verification, August 2025
What’s inside
The report gives enterprise buyers a vendor-by-vendor breakdown of the identity verification market, with specific findings on:
Workforce IDV trends, including surging demand for help desk security and remote hiring fraud prevention
How vendors handle deepfake threats through layered risk signals, injection attack detection, and liveness verification
Integration depth across IAM, IGA, ITSM, and HR platforms for workforce use cases
Accessibility and hosted IDV UX as emerging differentiators across evaluated vendors
Automation maturity and the tradeoffs between human-assisted and fully automated IDV processes