The Network

March 25, 2026

Law enforcement intelligence used to be a human business. Agents knew their contacts. Relationships were local. When you needed something, you called somebody.

That world is gone.

Today, everything that matters lives inside private companies, and every investigation that touches digital life requires a data request to one of them. Often several. Often across borders.

There is no standard for how those requests work. No shared process. No verification system. Agents send subpoenas by fax and email to companies that have no way of confirming who they are. Companies receive urgent requests from addresses they don't recognize, for data they're not sure they should hand over.

The result: sensitive data gets compromised. Trust and safety teams are permanently underwater. And the people committing crimes online operate with the confidence that the system can't keep up with them.

This is why, in 2021, I left my job at the FBI to found Kodex. And today is the most important day for this company since then. 

Here's what we announced in today's Kodex Global Keynote.

Kodex Global Network

Over the last four years, Kodex has quietly built the largest verified law enforcement network in the world. More than 15,000 agencies across six continents. More than 140,000 individual investigators, each one verified and continuously monitored. On the other side, the private companies receiving and responding to their requests, including Coinbase, Apple, and Verizon.

Today, we're formally naming what this is: Kodex Global Network.

It is the world's only continuously verified law enforcement network. Every agent credential is validated. Impersonation attempts are detected and stopped in real time. Compromised accounts are flagged before they can be used.

All of this is powered by a dedicated threat intelligence operation that has been running since the day we launched, led by my co-founder Brian Donahue. His team's monthly Threat Intelligence Newsletter has become one of the most forwarded documents in the industry, because nobody else is doing this work at this scale.

Kodex Global Network is not a product. It's the infrastructure underneath everything we do. It's the reason law enforcement agencies trust us enough to send their most sensitive requests through Kodex, and it's the reason companies trust us enough to respond to them.

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Every product Kodex has ever shipped sits on top of this network. And the two products we're announcing today extend it in ways we've been working toward since the beginning.

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Kodex Verify

Until now, the intelligence behind Kodex Global Network has been mostly invisible to the market. If you were a Kodex Core customer, you benefited from it every time a request came through verified and clean. But you didn't see the underlying work. If you weren't a customer, the only window was Brian's newsletter: a monthly PDF summarizing the threat landscape. Incredibly valuable, but still just a snapshot.

Kodex Verify changes that. It's a standalone platform, live today at verify.kodexglobal.com, that gives you direct access to the intelligence and verification capabilities of Kodex Global Network for the first time.

The core use case is straightforward: you get a request from someone claiming to be law enforcement. You check their email against the network. In seconds, you know whether they're verified or not.

That alone solves a problem that most trust and safety teams are still handling manually, if they're handling it at all.

But Verify goes well beyond single lookups. The Threat Intelligence Newsletter is now a live feed inside the product, continuously updated with emerging threats, compromised credentials, and patterns across the network. You can set up alerts for changes that affect you.

You can see analytics on verification trends, search volume, top agencies and jurisdictions. You can invite your team and get visibility into how your entire organization is handling government requests.

Kodex Verify is free. There's a paid tier for teams that need real-time monitoring, deeper analytics, and organizational visibility, but the core verification and threat intelligence capabilities cost nothing.

Access is restricted to companies with verified domains. This is a security decision, not a marketing one: the intelligence in Verify is sensitive, and it has to stay out of the wrong hands. If you're a current Kodex customer, you have access today. If you're not, you can request it and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.

Sign In with Kodex

Kodex Verify gives companies access to the network. Sign In with Kodex lets them build the network into their own platform.

A lot of our customers operate their own portals for handling law enforcement requests. Many already integrate with our verification API to pull agent data into their workflows. 

Sign In with Kodex takes that further:

- Any company can embed a single button into their portal, intake form, or whatever system they use. When a law enforcement officer clicks it, their credentials are authenticated against Kodex Global Network in real time. 

• The company gets verification data back immediately: who the agent is, what agency they're with, whether they're verified. No manual lookup, no email chains, no guesswork.

The analogy is Sign In with Google, except the thing being verified isn't an email account. It's a law enforcement officer's identity and authority. For companies that process hundreds or thousands of government requests, this collapses what used to be days of back-and-forth into a single click.

Sign In with Kodex is available now. If you're interested, reach out to your Kodex representative and we'll get you set up.

What this means

Four years ago, we set out to build a trust layer between law enforcement and the private sector.

That trust layer is now live, global, and growing. 15,000 agencies. 140,000 investigators. Defended by a threat intelligence operation that doesn't sleep.

With Kodex Global Network, we gave that infrastructure a name. With Kodex Verify, we made the intelligence inside it accessible to anyone who needs it. With Sign In with Kodex, we made it embeddable anywhere. Three announcements, one argument: this industry finally has a standard.

We showed all of it at our first ever Kodex Global Keynote earlier today. The full product demos, the story behind the network, and a few stories from the field that I think will stay with you. I'd encourage you to watch it.

The network keeps getting bigger. The intelligence keeps getting sharper. We have a lot more to share in the months ahead.

Watch the Kodex Global Keynote: kodexglobal.com/keynote

Try Kodex Verify: verify.kodexglobal.com

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