1Kosmos Platform

Digital identities are positioned as the starting point and ongoing backbone of digital services, because every digital journey begins with onboarding and continues through recurring authentication. As remote work and online services expand, identity verification becomes the first critical step: when implemented well, onboarding drop-off declines and convenience improves. At the same time, passwordless yet secure authentication is framed as essential to reducing churn and strengthening user experience. Since identities face continuous attacks—especially phishing—the core challenge is combining usability with strong security rather than accepting the traditional trade-off. Smooth, secure identity proofing and authentication are presented as prerequisites for organizations to succeed digitally.

The text argues that demand for verified identities is rising and that many organizations already view them as essential or valuable. Although markets for identity verification and passwordless authentication have advanced with more vendors, innovation, and growing standardization around decentralized identities, these capabilities are often delivered by separate providers. This separation raises cost and integration effort while increasing breach risk due to weak coupling between verification and authentication.

1Kosmos is presented as an integrated platform provider combining remote identity verification (identity proofing and credential verification) with passwordless multi-factor authentication for workforce, customers, and citizens. Its BlockID product set supports identity affirmation from trusted sources, verification via document and database checks, fraud and duplicate enrollment detection, device binding, and integrations into IdPs, IGA, and HCM systems through APIs. Authentication supports biometrics (including liveness), major protocols (FIDO2/WebAuthn, SAML, OAuth, RADIUS, OIDC), legacy options, and broad target environments (OS, VPN, VDI). The platform also supports verifiable credentials, digital wallets, and private-key user control on a private distributed ledger aligned with W3C VC and DID standards, with extensive connectors and mobile SDK/app options.

• The digital journey starts with onboarding and continues with recurring authentication.
• Strong identity verification can reduce onboarding drop-out rates and increase user convenience.
• Digital identities are under constant attack from multiple vectors, including phishing.
• Most organizations indicate a need for verified identities, and more than half already see them as essential or valuable.
• Identity verification and passwordless authentication are typically offered by different vendors and rarely as a combined solution.
• Lack of close integration between verification and authentication increases costs and can increase security breach risk.
• 1Kosmos offers BlockID Workforce, BlockID Customer, and BlockID Verify.
• The platform is certified to NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 for identity assurance.
• NIST AAL2 authentication is supported through proof of possession of a key and biometric information.
• The platform supports standards including FIDO2/WebAuthn, SAML, OAuth, RADIUS, and OIDC.

• “The digital journey, be it as a consumer and customer, a citizen, or as part of an organization’s workforce, always starts with onboarding and continues with recurring authentication.”
• “Identity verification, in times of using digital services and remote work, has become a major theme.”
• “Done right, drop out rates during onboarding will decrease and user convenience increases.”
• “Simple yet secure, passwordless authentication is essential for keeping churn rates low and improving the user experience.”
• “The art is in combining user convenience/usability with strong security, instead of the traditional trade-off between usability and security.”
• “Only if identity verification and recurring authentication work both smoothly and securely, will organizations succeed in their digital journey.”
• “Moreover, a lack of close and proper integration between identity verification and authentication not only increases cost… but also increases the risk of security breaches.”
• “This makes 1Kosmos an integrated solution covering the initial verification as well as recurring authentication.”
• “The third group of capabilities builds the bridge to Decentralized Identity technologies… enabling users to share tamper-evident credentials with explicit consent.”
• “The consequent expansion of standards support, specifically with respect to decentralized identities, is important for customers, with decentralized identities being expected to play a central role in future digital services.”