Platform recognized for helping enterprises stop identity fraud during onboarding and account recovery, while providing phishing-resistant passwordless access to digital services

1Kosmos, the leader in unifying identity proofing and passwordless authentication, today announced it has received the 2025 SiliconANGLE TechForward Award for Identity Verification. The 1Kosmos platform, in use by millions of employees and citizens globally, confirms the real person behind every login, at scale. By eliminating passwords and outdated MFA, it reduces fraud, accelerates onboarding, lowers compliance costs, and protects privacy.

The TechForward Awards spotlight breakthrough technologies driving business transformation across cloud, AI, security, data, and more. Winners are selected by SiliconANGLE’s editorial team for delivering measurable innovation and business impact. For more information: https://siliconangle.com/awards/.

“Winning the TechForward Award in Identity Verification validates our unique ability to prevent impersonation attacks at critical points of vulnerability such as during hiring, account recovery, and account login,” said Michael Cichon, Chief Marketing Officer of 1Kosmos. “Our ‘register once, use anywhere’ approach using a reusable digital identity wallet readily integrates with most enterprise systems for rapid deployment. Security improves, productivity increases, and users get a modern, convenient experience that gives them complete control over their personal information.”

Innovation, Differentiation, and Customer Impact

1Kosmos is the only platform that unifies phishing-resistant login, biometric verification, and decentralized identity into a single, scalable solution. Trusted by enterprises across banking, healthcare, government, and telecom, it helps reduce account takeovers, prevent SIM-swap and synthetic-identity fraud, accelerate onboarding, and cut costs from password resets, all while delivering a seamless user experience. The platform integrates with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, and Active Directory and meets the industry’s highest security standards, including FedRAMP High, NIST 800-63-3, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001.

“The TechForward Awards winners like 1Kosmos represent the best in enterprise tech innovation,” said Dave Vellante, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media. "These solutions don’t just advance their categories, they define what's possible when breakthrough engineering meets real-world business challenges. Every winner has proven they can deliver game-changing results.”

About SiliconANGLE Media

SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, bringing together cutting-edge technology, influential content, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios — such as those established in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — SiliconANGLE Media transforms the way technology companies connect with their target markets. Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a powerful ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands, with a reach of 10+ million elite tech professionals, 4+ million SiliconANGLE readers and 250,000+ social media subscribers. The company's new, proprietary theCUBE AI LLM is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging CUBE365's neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.

About 1Kosmos

1Kosmos enables remote identity verification and passwordless multi-factor authentication for workers, customers, and residents to securely engage with digital services. By unifying identity proofing, credential verification, and strong authentication, the 1Kosmos platform prevents identity impersonation, account takeover, and fraud while delivering frictionless user experiences and preserving the privacy of users' personal information.

The company conducts millions of authentications daily for major banks, telecommunications providers, technology and service providers, healthcare organizations, and retailers worldwide. Backed by Forgepoint Capital, Origami Capital Partners/Oquirrh Ventures, NextEra, Gula Tech Adventures, and Craig Abod, 1Kosmos is headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.1kosmos.com and  follow us on X, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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1Kosmos combines multi-modal verification factors with a simple ‘register once, use anywhere’ experience to create a verified identity that accelerates user onboarding, protects against account compromise and maintains privacy.