April 2011 Newsletter
1 M users. 12 k customers. 100 solution partners. 90 countries. We thank our great developers community for refining, defining and implementing the YubiKey in a wide range of applications. And for inspiring us to keep innovating…
YubiHSM – securing secrets on servers
The YubiHSM is a new, affordable and lightweight version of a Hardware Security Module. Initially developed for securing secrets on our own authentication servers, great response from security experts have convinced us to turn it into a product, in collaboration with our community.
YubiKey in Microsoft cloud
The Windows Azure platform is a cloud platform that enables customers to build, host and dynamically scale applications through the Microsoft data centers around the world. Windows Azure based solutions can now easily integrate with the YubiKey for increased security.
Secure access to patient data
To meet the requirements for secure login from the Swedish Data Inspection Agency, Swedish hospitals are now starting to use YubiKey USB authentication, including world leading quality register of stroke patients.
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Identity and access management
ForgeRock is a global software company with origins in the business and technical community at Sun Microsystems. The teams base their business on open source products and have integrated YubiKey support into their access management software OpenAM.
Linux Disk Encryption
A proof of concept for using the YubiKey to encrypt the entire hard drive on a Linux computer has been developed by Tollef Fog Heen, a long time YubiKey user and Debian package maintainer.
New Palo Alto office
We have moved our North America Yubico Inc. office to downtown Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Later this summer Stina, Yubico CEO, will also be moving to Palo Alto to expand our collaboration with leading cloud services.
The dog test
We have heard stories of YubiKeys surviving laundry, diving 48 meters down in salt water and being run over by a car. Last week a developer told us his YubiKey had been eaten up by his dog. Luckily no animals or YubiKeys were harmed. For a day, the dog was perhaps extra secure with integrated support for OTP…
Stay tuned!
The Yubico team