Yubico

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Yubico has shipped a million YubiKeys to more than 20,000 customers in over 100 countries and in all continents. YubiKey users range from independent developers to e-governments, universities and global enterprises. 

Below is a selection of YubiKey customers and use cases currently available for the public.

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Microsoft

The YubiKey is available to increase security for cloud platform Windows Azure applications.

“Being able to integrate solutions for two factor authentication is becoming increasingly more important as customers move their existing assets to the cloud or build new services with a higher demand for security.”

Robert Folkesson, Architect in the Developer and platform group, Microsoft Sweden

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Yubico offers simple and secure access on open source content management systems, such as WordPress and Drupal, to protect your web site and online users from being hacked.

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Agfa, the international imaging and medical equipment company, uses the YubiKey for corporate remote access.

"Apart from lower token hardware cost, Agfa also expects the support cost to be greatly reduced."

Erik Ruwalder, Agfa ICS organization, Belgium

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Dyson, the vacuum cleaner innovator, has made a successful integration of the YubiKey.

"It took 20 minutes and 11 lines of code to integrate the YubiKey with our internal intranet based password management system."

Matt Morgans, Global IT Security Manager, Dyson Ltd, UK.

Symantec

YubiKey has been integrated in Symantec VIP authentication service used by leading online services, including PayPal and eBay.

“By integrating the VIP Authentication Service into the YubiKey, Yubico can now provide its customers with increased levels of security at the touch of a button.”

Kerry Loftus, senior director of product management for User Authentication at Symantec, USA.

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Novartis is a leading pharmaceutical company using YubiKeys. Headquartered in Switzerland, Novartis employs nearly 100,000 people worldwide.

 

Cloudkick, the web application for easy and efficient cloud server management has integrated YubiKey for strong authentication of own staff and customers.

“The reasons for choosing YubiKey was that it’s secure- technical specifications are open, portable - most of our employees carry it around on a key chain and it’s easy to use - the process is transparent and you don't need to have any extra software installed to use it”

Robert Hrdinsky, Community Manager at Cloudkick, USA

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U.S. defense contractors use YubiKey and YubiHSM for simple and secure access to networks and cloud applications, validating Yubico’s high security processes where token secrets cannot be remotely hacked.

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Santa Clara County Fire Department has equipped their firefighters with the YubiKey to enable faster computer access in emergency situations.

“The YubiKey is much quicker and easier to remember than a manual entry of a password in an emergency situation.”

Jim Swanson, Fire Captain, Santa Clara County Fire Department, USA

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Swedish local e-governments and schools use YubiKeys to protect the online identity for staff and students in the cloud.

“We have made significant cost savings, eliminated all administration using Google’s services, while providing superior online identity protection of our staff and students.”

Torbjörn Lundström, IT administrator at Swedish high school Arlandagymnasiet.

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Turkey e-government, including Customs and Social Agency, is using YubiKeys.

“The Nordic Edge solution combined with YubiKeys has many advantages. It is easy to roll out, easy to use, scalable and very flexible with its many ways to authenticate users.”

Umut Yesilirmak, IT Security Manager at General Directorate of Social Assistance and Solidarity in Turkey.

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EarthLink, Inc. is a leading IT services, network and communications provider to more than 150,000 businesses and over one million consumers in USA. The company is a Yubico customer.
 


London 2012 Ceremonies Ltd, a Yubico customer, was set up to produce the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
 

SAPO, the largest Internet Service Provider and Web portal in Portugal with over 1 million daily users, is using YubiKey for both employees and end users. 

"One of the most important responsibilities that we have with our customers is security. We have actively taken the approach to teach our end users the best security practices. Through this partnership, we were able to provide our users with a thorough understanding of the value and use for two-factor authentication with the YubiKey, thus adding a valuable tool to our security arsenal."

Abílio Martins, Portugal Telecom’s Board Member.

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The Fedora Project, a leading open source collaboration, has integrated YubiKey support and use it for securing access to high security hosts.

"The Yubikey is backed by a free software stack and can be used agnostically with other free software, making it well-suited for the rest of the Fedora team's processes.”

Mike McGrath, Red Hat engineer and leader of the Fedora Infrastructure team.

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Partially sighted engineers, at one of the worlds largest Internet companies, use their YubiKeys at work every day, validating the unmatched ease of use for secure one time passwords.

 

Customers of Essent, one of the leading energy companies in the Netherlands, authenticates large amounts of online orders with YubiKeys.

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TriMet - Oregon metro area

Oregon Transportation Agency, TriMet, has increased security and saved cost by replacing their previous legacy authentication solution with the YubiKey.

“YubiKeys are easy to use, appear to be extremely durable, and I appreciate the extra security of being able to program them with your own secret key. Working with Yubico has also been refreshing; it is not too often that we get to work with a company that is amazingly helpful, responsive and goes through great pains to make their product open and interoperable.”

Michael Crino, Network Communications Systems Engineer, TriMet, USA

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Mt. Gox in Japan uses YubiKeys for securing BitCoin transactions.

"If we would have known that the YubiKey security solution was so quick to implement and cost efficient prior to our security breach, we could have saved ourselves and our users a world of headaches. YubiKey is one very big step towards re-establishing trust and confidence with our traders."

Adam Turner, Mt. Gox, Japan

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Lastpass, a US-based password manager service, has integrated YubiKey support to protect the identity for Internet users.

“Lastpass, when used in conjunction with the YubiKey, is a great combination for delivering simple and secure password management. A physical security token, that cannot be copied remotely, provides the best protection for online identities”

Joe Siegrist, CEO and founder of LastPass.

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Murphy Bank in California is one of several banks around the world securing access to networks and services with YubiKey.

“Murphy Bank needed a way to selectively add two-factor authentication to Portlets in the Oracle Portal. We ordered YubiKeys, downloaded the API and, in Java, we wrote a small API that could be added to any Portlet.”

M. Mikkelsen, Senior Software Developer, Murphy Bank, USA

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Swedish municipality Vellinge Kommun uses RFID YubiKey for simple and secure access to networks, buildings, printers and photocopiers.

"MobilityGuard and RFID YubiKey meets our requirements for easy, secure and robust access solutions."

Gert Åberg, IT Manager, Vellinge Municipality, Sweden

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Auckland University uses YubiKey for access to networks and services.

 

Yubico Provides Goldsworth Primary School with Two-Factor Authentication and Cost-Effective VPN Connectivity.

"Since implementation, staff and teachers at Goldsworth Primary School love the ease of use and increased productivity they have obtained from their secure VPN connection with the YubiKey. To date, there have been no issues or maintenance required on the YubiKey two-factor authentication solution for our remote access, it is a perfect fit for our school."

Jo Barber, IT technician for Goldsworth Primary School

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Sterling Knight Successfully Implements Single Sign-On with YubiKey

With OneLogin and YubiKey, we are able to login securely to our cloud-based applications such as Google Apps and salesforce.com with one password and the simple click of a button. The implementation of the OneLogin/YubiKey solution was so simple that even our least technical employees were trained to use it in about 15 minutes.”

Lawrence Adam, Chief Operating Officer of Sterling Knight.

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Boral Limited has an existing Juniper SA remote access platform and converted their RSA Two-Factor Authentication solution to Mi-Token utilizing the YubiKeys as the token form factor. Boral staff can now login securely with YubiKeys and significant cost savings.

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Adrad offers customers secure and easy access to online shopping through RadShop, the online shopping facility for Australia's largest manufacturer and supplier of radiator and air conditioning components, with YubiKeys.

"The ease of integration and ready available open source code, coupled with unmatched ease of use made YubiKey a natural choice for us."

Anthony Nicholl, Adrad’s CIO.

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Wealthfront

Wealthfront, the leading marketplace providing access to outstanding money managers, is using YubiKeys with OneLogin’s single sign-on and identity management service.

“With OneLogin and YubiKey, we are able to login securely to all our corporate applications as well as thousands of online services with one password and a simple click of a button.”

Pascal-Louis Perez, CTO, Wealthfront, Inc.

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FastMail is a leading provider of e-mail services, offering hundreds of thousands of users an additional layer of security to the standard username/password login, including SMS passwords and YubiKey.

“YubiKey provides a simple yet robust solution, ensuring that people can login and access their email on any machine without the worry of their authentication details being stolen.”

Rob Mueller, Co-Founder and Lead Architect, FastMail.FM, Australia

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The IT solution company NerdsOnSite, with over 800 eNerds in 9 countries across 5 continents uses YubiKeys.

"The YubiKey is truly making multi-factor authentication economical and practical for everybody from small & medium enterprises through to large corporate environments."

David Redekop, co-founder, Nerds on Site, Canada

 

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is a non-profit consortium of North American universities supporting atmospheric science. The consortium has successfully deployed YubiKeys to its community members.

 

City of Boca Raton in Florida uses the YubiKey for secure file storage.

"Rather than burden the department heads with using a 20-character password as TrueCrypt suggests, we decided to use the YubiKey with a static password to validate the access to the volume. The concept of a physical key is far more comfortable for our managers to use!"

Walt Scrivens, Information Security Officer, City of Boca Raton, Florida, USA

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ShopVisible, a leading provider of on-demand eCommerce solutions maintains PCI compliance and has selected the YubiKey to achieve highly secure credit card processing.

“We searched the market of strong authentication solutions to meet the highest level of PCI compliance requirements. Of all solutions evaluated, the YubiKey was by far the most robust, easy and cost-efficient solution to integrate.”

Sean Cook, CEO ShopVisible, USA

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Oblivion, Dutch Internet application developer, has integrated YubiKey with several customer's IT-systems.

"Many of our clients have asked for an access security solution that is easy to implement, and safe. Autojobs, a leading recruiter in the motor trade based in Naarden, Netherlands is the first to use our YubiKey solution companywide. It works fantastically well!"

Edwin van Nuil, Sr Security consultant at Oblivion, The Netherlands

 

Swedish municipality Värmdö Kommun uses the YubiKey for secure access to IT-systems.

“As more e-government services are moved to the Internet, there is a growing need to securely identify the user. With the YubiKey we can login easily and securely and at a considerable lower cost than with traditional hardware security solutions.”

 
Jörgen Sandström, CIO Värmdö Kommun, Sweden

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European online gaming company uses YubiKey for authenticating staff and partners.

”We required a high security solution that was easy to integrate and easy to use. The YubiKey fulfils our needs”

 Jarl Modén, Product Manager, Entraction, Sweden

Debian

A global open source community is developing the wide range of applications for the YubiKey.

“Implementing the challenge-response encryption was surprisingly easy by building on the open source tools from Yubico as well as the existing full-disk encryption solution in Debian.”

Tollef Fog Heen, Debian package maintainer, Norway
 
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MOSBIRT, a US government funded substance abuse prevention project, uses the YubiKey with open source disk encryption Truecrypt to protect sensitive data.

“Our health coaches must use their YubiKey with a static password and an additional string to unlock the computers. We expect to serve at least 80,000 Missourians with this system in the next few years.”
 
Matthew G. Hile, Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Missouri Institute of Mental Health, USA

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Riks-Stroke, the world leading quality register for stroke patients, are using YubiKeys to meet the security requirements from the Swedish Data Inspection Agency.

“We believe that the system will work well."

Per Ivarsson, Riks-Stroke secretary

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Movaci Technology in Thailand provides secure communication solutions for individuals, businesses and organizations based on the YubiKey.

“Leveraging YubiKeys and Authlite, Movaci Technology has been able to easily implement strong, two-factor Microsoft domain authentication for its security conscious customers”

Christopher B, Movaci Technology, Thailand

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ForgeRock

ForgeRock, the leading enterprise open source identity and access management software company, has integrated YubiKey support.

“YubiKey authentication integration paired with ForgeRock OpenAM allows customers to easily, securely and affordably solve single sign-on challenges across various web environments. ForgeRock staff will also have the option to use YubiKey for our own secure login.”

Lasse Andresen, ForgeRock CEO, Norway

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Solutrust, a Mexican solution provider for accounting of trust funds, offers YubiKeys for easy and secure access to their service and software.

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