Secure Remote Onboarding with 1Kosmos and Entra Verified ID

1Kosmos has extended its existing partnership with Microsoft, now recognized as an official Entra Verified ID services and solution partner.

The platform is listed on the Microsoft Security Store, giving organizations a direct path to deploy high-assurance identity verification and verifiable credentials within their Microsoft environment.

What the partnership enables

This recognition formalizes a technical integration that's already delivering results. Through the joint solution, organizations can issue, hold, and verify cryptographically secure digital identity credentials.

1Kosmos handles the identity proofing; Microsoft Entra Verified ID provides the credential infrastructure.

The result is a complete identity lifecycle. 1Kosmos verifies a person's identity against a government-issued document and a real-time biometric selfie with liveness detection, then issues a verifiable credential that can be trusted across any environment, not just inside the Microsoft ecosystem.

What it solves

Remote onboarding is one of the most exploited gaps in enterprise security. Hiring fraud, synthetic identities, and unauthorized account creation thrive when organizations can't confidently verify who is on the other end of a screen.

The 1Kosmos and Microsoft Entra Verified ID integration closes that gap.

Key capabilities include:

• Secure remote identity proofing: verify government IDs against live biometrics, certified to ISO/IEC 30107-3 and NIST IAL2/AAL2

• Verifiable credentials and decentralized identity: privacy-preserving digital identities backed by a decentralized private ledger

• Extended passwordless authentication: phishing-resistant access across environments Entra ID doesn't natively cover, including Mac, Linux, VPNs, PAM, and legacy systems

• Self-service account recovery: biometric-backed resets for Entra ID, on-prem Active Directory, and more

• Passwordless for restricted environments: kiosks and shared workstations covered through 1Kosmos 1Key biometric security keys

Why it matters now

Identity-based attacks are more sophisticated than they've ever been. Deepfakes, AI-generated synthetic identities, and social engineering at the service desk have shifted the threat surface beyond what credential-based controls alone can handle.

Binding access to verified identity, not just a password or token, is the direction the industry is moving. This partnership gives organizations a standards-based, enterprise-grade way to do exactly that across one of the most widely deployed identity platforms in the world.

As Mike Engle, Chief Strategy Officer at 1Kosmos, put it:

"Becoming a Microsoft Entra Verified ID partner reinforces our commitment to delivering the most secure and convenient identity solutions for employee onboarding. This partnership provides organizations with a powerful, standards-based approach to remote onboarding and digital trust, ensuring robust and frictionless identity verification and authentication across their environments."