February Newsletter
It’s been a good start to 2010. Please enjoy below a selection of new case studies, development projects and upcoming Yubico events.
Faster login for California firefighters
Santa Clara County Fire Department has equipped their firefighters with the innovative USB security key from Yubico to enable faster computer access in emergency situations.
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Secure email login for the mass market
Combining the reliable email service from FastMail with the YubiKey secure email login is now available to all individuals and small businesses at an affordable cost and unmatched ease of use.
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Auckland University deploys YubiKeys
Due to the overall simplicity and the open source business model, a growing number of Universities including Auckland, Calgary and Missouri are deploying YubiKeys as the preferred two factor authentication method.
Contact sales@yubico.com for university and academic discounts.
Secure digital signing of transactions
The YubiKey combined with CoSign® by ARX, makes it easy and secure to automate your approvals and digitally sign transactions, documents, and records within a business process.
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Protecting sensitive data in US healthcare
MOSBIRT provides a healthcare application for health coaches in clinics and emergency departments in US. To protect sensitive data, the hard drives on tablet computers are encrypted with TrueCrypt and the YubiKey is used to unlock the computers.
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Enterprises single sign-on for cloud-based applications
OneLogin provides a cloud based service for secure one-click access to Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite, Zoho, WebEx and hundreds of other apps. With YubiKey, OneLogin's customers can login securely with the press of a button.
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Login with YubiKey and OpenID to popular websites
We have received reports from happy customers using the YubiKey with Clavid’s free OpenID service, for loging on to FaceBook and other popular websites supporting OpenID.
» Sign up for Clavid OpenID
» Meet Clavid presenting YubiKey at OpenID & OWASP event in Geneva
Starter key for the virtual office
The global IT-solution providers Nerds On Site has created a new OpenID and SaaS offering with YubiKey for multi-factor authentication. The solution includes ERP, Cloud File Storage, Business Systems Integration and Custom Application Services.
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YubiKey 2.1 include OATH support as standard
To allow customers to easily test and configure the YubiKey for standard YubiKey, OATH or static password, all three alternatives are included as optional features in the YubiKey 2.1.
» To order YubiKey 2.1
Leading open source platforms support
Several of Yubico’s free software packages including the core C library and the YubiKey Personalization tool have been packaged for GNU/Linux distributions Debian, Mandriva and most recently Fedora.
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Recent Yubico Videos
We have produced a number of short "how-to" videos; please see Vimeo vimeo.com/yubikey or Youtubeyoutube.com/yubikey. The most recent video shows how you can re-program a YubiKey with a new public ID and AES key. If you have ideas for any other videos in the "how-to" series, please contact john@yubico.com.
Meet Yubico in SanFrancisco on March 1-5
We will be exhibiting with software partner Collective Software, the makers of AuthLite, easy and affordable Windows and Active Directory login, in booth 2628. ICT/MiToken will also be demoing their YubiKey enterprise solutions in booth 243
» To order YubiKeys with AuthLite software at great discounts
» Read more about RSA Conference
The secrets of producing 10,000 YubiKeys per day
In our next newsletter we will invite you to the YubiKey production plant in the forests of Sweden. Where robots manufacture 10,000 YubiKeys per day and a single person programs 10,000 YubiKeys in less than an hour...
Stay tuned!
The Yubico team