Last year, 1Kosmos was named a Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification with the highest score for Workforce use cases. This year, the company has been named a Leader, and once again held the highest Workforce use cases score in the Critical Capabilities report.
The highest score for Workforce use cases
1Kosmos scored highest for Workforce use cases for the second year, and the threat landscape explains why that designation matters.
The attacks targeting workforce identity today are fundamentally different from what most verification tools were designed to stop:
Service desks are being manipulated through social engineering
Hiring pipelines are being infiltrated with synthetic identities
Account takeover no longer requires stolen passwords when a convincing deepfake can do the same job
Stopping them requires identity verification that goes beyond onboarding. Organizations need to reverify the same trusted identity at every high-risk moment, without slowing users down or forcing them through full re-enrollment.
That’s the gap 1Kosmos was built to close.
Words from our CEO
Hemen Vimadalal, CEO of 1Kosmos, on what the recognition means:
"Being named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification is a major milestone for 1Kosmos and, we believe, validates our focus on securing the person behind every digital interaction.”
"Workforce identity has become one of the most important control points in enterprise security, as attackers increasingly use deepfakes, synthetic identities and AI-enabled impersonation to commit hiring fraud, service desk attacks and account takeover. 1Kosmos brings verified identity into the moments where trust is established and challenged, without introducing user friction."
We believe the move from Challenger to Leader reflects exactly that: a platform that has proven it can secure identity where the stakes are highest.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification, Nayara Sangiorgio, Akif Khan, Zachary Smith, 28 July 2026
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About the author
Erica West
Head of Marketing
Erica West is the Head of Marketing at 1Kosmos, where she drives messaging, positioning, and content strategy for identity verification and passwordless authentication solutions.
