July 2011 Newsletter
Recent security breaches have increased the demand for secure authentication.
The most commonly asked question today by our customers is where and how the YubiKey is manufactured and programmed. The second most asked question is how we protect our authentication servers.
As a growing number of global enterprises are replacing legacy security tokens with YubiKeys, we know we have good answers. And we thank Rob for this; a cool and hard working guy in the forests of Sweden…
YubiKey secure life-cycle
Automated and secure manufacturing and programming of YubiKeys, now presented on video:
» Watch Rob producing 10,000 YubiKeys per day (2 min)
» Watch YubiKey secure programming (1.3 min)
Google and YubiKey
Thanks to Google, YubiKey and a SAML ID-service, Swedish schools are simplifying work, securing students and saving costs.
» Watch video on school cloud access (3 min)
Securing the global financial cloud
Recent online financial services using the YubiKey to protect customer data:
» US mortgage industry uses YubiKey to protect staff and customers
» Financial service in Singapore uses YubiKey for secure single sign-on
» Mt. Gox in Japan uses YubiKeys for securing BitCoin transactions
BBC and consumer password managers
Yubico was recently featured by BBC News Click, highlighting consumer password managers and the YubiKey “for those who want to be Über safe."
Cross platform configuration tool
We have developed a cross platform configuration tool for easy programming of YubiKeys on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Launch of YubiHSM 1.0 in August
Successfully verified by 50 beta users, we will launch YubiHSM 1.0 in August for securing cryptographic secrets on servers at a yet unmatched simplicity and low cost.
Help simplify
Yubico’s mission is to simplify secure authentication. Now we would love your feedback on how to simplify your interaction with us. The Survey we ran in July 2011 is now closed; however, please do continue to give us feedback to info@yubico.com.
Stay tuned!
The Yubico team