The 2022 Verizon Data Breach report found that a staggering 82% of breaches this year were caused by the human element which encompasses errors, misuse, and social engineering. The report also foun...
There is a classic juxtaposition within security controls. Organizations need to make data and services available, but if it’s too easily accessible, too open, then a data breach can occur. On the ...
Zero Trust and Customer Experience
The Way Things Used to Be
During the pandemic, life and work changed rapidly. Appointments needed to be conducted remotely, which resulted in some employees never even meeting each other in person...
Reflections from 1Kosmos All Hands Meeting in India
In this vlog, our Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Mike Engle, joins our Chief Marketing Officer, Michael Cichon, to discuss FIDO's May 5th announcement and what it means for the future of pa...
Vlog: FIDO and the Future of Passwordless
In this vlog, our Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Mike Engle, joins our Chief Marketing Officer, Michael Cichon to discuss how a zero trust architecture can be defeated. They also discuss ho...
Vlog: How to Defeat a Zero Trust Architecture
This week, Verizon released its DBIR report marking 15 years of the annual report. In the report, Verizon highlighted their analysis of more than 5,212 breaches and 23,896 security incidents to fin...
Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report
Problems with Passwords
Are passwords the weakest link in cybersecurity? We all know that it is risky to authenticate workers, citizens, and customers with passwords. The proof is in the seemingly...
3 Key Considerations in Your Passwordless Journey
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
Strong authentication can be the difference between hackers easily slipping into your network and stealing your data or being able to block them from the start.
What is strong authentication? St...
What Is Strong Authentication? (With Examples & Methods)
In this vlog, our CSO, Michael Engle, joins our CMO, Michael Cichon, to discuss how to extend Windows Hello in your journey to passwordless. If you are interested in learning more, please register ...
How to Extend Windows Hello in Your Journey to Passwordless
Passwords are a problem… we all know it. It’s all over our website and countless others. Vendors are trying to help organizations to course correct to solve the problem. Microsoft’s Windows Hello f...
6 Technology Gaps to Consider When Implementing Windows Hello For Business
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
Phishing is costing companies billions of dollars but executive phishing can make these attacks more costly because of who the attackers are spoofing.
What is executive phishing? Executive phish...
What Is Executive Phishing? (How to Protect Against Whaling)
Online document verification has become a useful tool in the current environment of remote onboarding; it eliminates the need for in-person verification.
What is the document verification proces...
Online Document Verification: How Does It Work?
Email phishing can be tricky to spot, cost your company thousands of dollars, and tarnish your reputation, so how can you protect against these attacks?
What is email phishing? Email phishing is...
What Is Email Phishing? (& How to Prevent It)
A one-time password can be used for many authentication needs including securing private information or creating an alternative to a password reset.
What is a one-time password? An OTP is a rand...
One-Time Passwords (OTP) & Login Security
Whale phishing attacks can deplete an organization of millions and destroy reputations. Is your company protected from these attacks?
What is whale phishing? Whale phishing is a spear phishing a...
Whale Phishing: What Is a Whaling Attack?
FIDO2 authentication goes beyond simply being an extension of FIDO or the FIDO alliance and adds in new protocols for passwordless authentication.
What does FIDO2 stand for? FIDO2 stands for Fas...
FIDO2 Authentication vs. FIDO: What’s the Difference?
This week news broke about the strategic partnership between 1Kosmos and AuthenticID. This is an industry first that provides end-to-end strong identity proofing and authentication solutions for ci...
1Kosmos and AuthenticID Announce Strategic Partnership
Using MFA is a great starting point, but you'll want to know multi-factor authentication best practices to get the most out of your MFA solution.
What are the four factors of multi-factor authen...
Best Practices For Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
We hope to create the ultimate expression of a developer experience for passwordless authentication and identity proofing. The roles and responsibilities of developers have continued to expand in t...
1Kosmos Developer Experience
Ransomware has been increasing significantly. India is now amongst the top five targeted countries in the APAC region. 49% of organizations in India suffered multiple ransomware attacks in the past...
Ransomware in India
In 2010, Forrester analyst John Kindervag coined the term “Zero Trust” in his research – emphasizing that all network traffic is untrusted and that any request to access any resource must be done s...
How Zero Trust Security Frameworks Work
Costs of multi-factor authentication can range drastically, but trying to figure out which provider is worth the money can be the hardest part.
Is multi-factor authentication free? While you may...