Iselin-based 1Kosmos has named Roger Hale as its chief information security officer.
Hale will lead the company’s internal security, compliance, customer trust, and risk management programs as the company expands adoption of its identity verification and password-less authentication platform across enterprises, public-sector agencies, and regulated industries.
Hale has more than two decades of executive management experience with global cybersecurity companies, having previously served as vice president and CISO at Informatica, where he led the company’s security transformation as it shifted from enterprise software to cloud-first data management.
He has held senior security leadership roles at Agora, BigID, and Veritas/Symantec and served as CISO-in-Residence and Venture Advisor at YL Ventures.
Hale is currently a member of the Silicon Valley CISO Investment group (SVCI), where he is an investor and advisor to early-stage cybersecurity companies’ product, security strategy, and go-to-market readiness.
1Kosmos’ sweet spot is its thoroughness in identity verification. Most enterprises verify identity once during onboarding, then shift ongoing trust decisions to credentials, MFA, and help desk processes, the company said in a release.
When a user loses access, changes devices, initiates account recovery, requests privileged access, or triggers a high-risk action, organizations often lack a verified identity to fall back on, it said in a release. These are the moments when the business needs to know who is behind the credentials.
1Kosmos extends identity verification beyond initial onboarding to critical workforce and customer transactions, such as account recovery, step-up authentication, password reset, privileged access, and service desk validation.
By binding access to verified identity, 1Kosmos helps organizations reduce the risk of impersonation, credential theft, account takeover, and social engineering attacks.
