What’s inside

Higher education institutions are running some of the most complex identity environments in any sector, serving students, applicants, faculty, and staff across dozens of systems simultaneously, with no reliable way to confirm that the person on the other end of any interaction is who they claim to be.

This datasheet maps the identity gaps most common in higher education environments and shows how biometric verification closes them, from enrollment fraud and help desk risk to faculty access:

• A breakdown of how biometric identity proofing stops ghost student fraud.

• The framework to secure remote caller verification at campus help desks.

• The steps to deploy phishing-resistant, passwordless access for faculty.

• An overview of the compliance mandates satisfied by the 1Kosmos platform.

Institutions are still trying to verify identity with information

The credentials higher education environments depend on, knowledge-based questions, scanned documents, and unverified phone calls, were designed for a different era. Attackers know that. Fraudulent enrollments, help desk exploits, and credential-based breaches share a common root: the person was never actually verified.

1Kosmos changes that by tying every access point, every account event, and every enrollment back to a verified, government-grade identity.

Students and staff enroll once against a government-issued ID, and that verified identity follows them into every login, account recovery event, and call to the help desk. With every interaction traced back to a verified identity, fraudulent applicants don’t make it past the application, social engineers have no gap to exploit at the help desk, and shared credentials stop being a viable attack path entirely.

The verified identity every student, applicant, faculty, and staff member deserves

Download the datasheet for use cases, compliance details, integration options, and the platform outcomes institutions see within their first six months of deployment.