IAM in higher education
Secure every student & applicant
Eliminate ghost students, stop applicant and financial aid fraud, and protect help desks from social engineering with standards-based identity verification.
What’s broken today
Higher Ed isn’t braced for modern threats
Universities run on trust, but legacy identity checks can’t keep up with modern attacks. Ghost students, fraudulent applicants, and social engineering put funding, data, and operations at risk.
Ghost students inflate risk and waste resources
Synthetic and duplicate identities slip through manual checks, skewing enrollment and exposing financial aid programs.
Applicant and financial aid fraud are hard to detect
Thin files and look‑alike identities make it difficult to distinguish real applicants from fraud rings and refund scams.
Help desk social engineering bypasses weak checks
Agents rely on easily stolen personal data to reset accounts, leaving gaps attackers can exploit over the phone.
Manual verification slows operations and raises costs
Staff spend hours each week verifying identities by hand, driving up FTE needs and frustrating students and faculty.
What’s broken today
Higher Ed isn’t braced for modern threats
Universities run on trust, but legacy identity checks can’t keep up with modern attacks. Ghost students, fraudulent applicants, and social engineering put funding, data, and operations at risk.
Ghost students inflate risk and waste resources
Synthetic and duplicate identities slip through manual checks, skewing enrollment and exposing financial aid programs.
Applicant and financial aid fraud are hard to detect
Thin files and look‑alike identities make it difficult to distinguish real applicants from fraud rings and refund scams.
Help desk social engineering bypasses weak checks
Agents rely on easily stolen personal data to reset accounts, leaving gaps attackers can exploit over the phone.
Manual verification slows operations and raises costs
Staff spend hours each week verifying identities by hand, driving up FTE needs and frustrating students and faculty.
What’s broken today
Higher Ed isn’t braced for modern threats
Universities run on trust, but legacy identity checks can’t keep up with modern attacks. Ghost students, fraudulent applicants, and social engineering put funding, data, and operations at risk.
Ghost students inflate risk and waste resources
Synthetic and duplicate identities slip through manual checks, skewing enrollment and exposing financial aid programs.
Applicant and financial aid fraud are hard to detect
Thin files and look‑alike identities make it difficult to distinguish real applicants from fraud rings and refund scams.
Help desk social engineering bypasses weak checks
Agents rely on easily stolen personal data to reset accounts, leaving gaps attackers can exploit over the phone.
Manual verification slows operations and raises costs
Staff spend hours each week verifying identities by hand, driving up FTE needs and frustrating students and faculty.
Verify every identity, on and off-campus
The 1Kosmos platform
Identity Verification (IDV)
Verify students, faculty, staff, and alumni remotely with self‑service document and biometric checks, then bind each verified identity to campus accounts and trusted devices.
Identity Verification (IDV)
Verify students, faculty, staff, and alumni remotely with self‑service document and biometric checks, then bind each verified identity to campus accounts and trusted devices.
Identity Verification (IDV)
Verify students, faculty, staff, and alumni remotely with self‑service document and biometric checks, then bind each verified identity to campus accounts and trusted devices.
Passwordless Authentication
Replace passwords with secure, biometric login anchored to a verified identity, working alongside your existing SSO and MFA to protect teaching, research, and administrative systems.
Passwordless Authentication
Replace passwords with secure, biometric login anchored to a verified identity, working alongside your existing SSO and MFA to protect teaching, research, and administrative systems.
Passwordless Authentication
Replace passwords with secure, biometric login anchored to a verified identity, working alongside your existing SSO and MFA to protect teaching, research, and administrative systems.
Reverification
Step up to verified identity again for high‑value events such as account recovery, financial aid changes, sensitive system access, and help desk calls, so you maintain trust across the entire lifecycle.
Reverification
Step up to verified identity again for high‑value events such as account recovery, financial aid changes, sensitive system access, and help desk calls, so you maintain trust across the entire lifecycle.
Reverification
Step up to verified identity again for high‑value events such as account recovery, financial aid changes, sensitive system access, and help desk calls, so you maintain trust across the entire lifecycle.
Proven & recognized
#1 Workforce use cases
(Gartner Critical Capabilities for IDV, 2025)
#1 Workforce use cases
(Gartner Critical Capabilities for IDV, 2025)
#1 Workforce use cases
(Gartner Critical Capabilities for IDV, 2025)
#1 Overall leader, product leader, & innovation leader
(KuppingerCole IDV Leadership Compass, 2025)
#1 Overall leader, product leader, & innovation leader
(KuppingerCole IDV Leadership Compass, 2025)
#1 Overall leader, product leader, & innovation leader
(KuppingerCole IDV Leadership Compass, 2025)
Built for higher education procurement
Meet higher education expectations for security, privacy, and contracts with a platform that supports price catalogs and contract vehicles. Higher ed pricing available.
Committed to standards & security
Purpose-built for public sector with the certifications and authorizations agencies require.
FedRAMP High-authorized + IL4
FedRAMP High-authorized + IL4
FedRAMP High-authorized + IL4
Kantara certified (1 of 6 full-service CSPs)
Kantara certified (1 of 6 full-service CSPs)
Kantara certified (1 of 6 full-service CSPs)
W3C-verified credentials
W3C-verified credentials
W3C-verified credentials
Carahsoft: How to buy
1Kosmos is available to education and SLED institutions through established contract vehicles with Carahsoft.
Blog
Read our insights.
A collection of news, insights, and tutorials.
Enter our orbit.
The latest in identity security.
Blog
Read our insights.
A collection of news, insights, and tutorials.
Enter our orbit.
The latest in identity security.
Blog
Read our insights.
A collection of news, insights, and tutorials.
Enter our orbit.
The latest in identity security.
Transform how you verify and authenticate
Secure onboarding, eliminate passwords, and stop fraud on one platform. Schedule a demo and see it in action.
Transform how you verify and authenticate
Secure onboarding, eliminate passwords, and stop fraud on one platform. Schedule a demo and see it in action.
Transform how you verify and authenticate
Secure onboarding, eliminate passwords, and stop fraud on one platform. Schedule a demo and see it in action.