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Q&A with CEO Mattias Danielsson: Yubico’s next stage of growth as a public company and what investors can expectToday marks an exciting, historic day in Yubico’s history: the company is now publicly traded under the ticker symbol YUBICO on Nasdaq First Growth North Market in Stockholm. As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly through increasingly sophisticated attacks like phishing, the need for phishing-resistant MFA with the YubiKey are at an all-time […]
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Five foundational cybersecurity controls to mitigate 90% of breachesDuring my 16 years in the cybersecurity industry, and after discussions with numerous CISOs and cyber security experts, they all agree that there are five easy steps all organizations can take to mitigate over 90% of all cyber breaches1. Just like cars were not initially designed for safety, the internet was not designed for security. […]
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Okta + Yubico: Better togetherModern cybersecurity needs to be phishing-resistant, but it also needs to incorporate a great user experience for employees, IT teams and customers. We know traditional authentication methods are perceived as user-friendly, but they are not secure and vulnerable to most attacks – in fact, 59% of people still rely on username and password to authenticate […]
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Works with YubiKey Spotlight: How Yubico works with industry leaders who share the commitment to strong authenticationAs the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly in the form of more sophisticated attacks like phishing and ransomware, the need for industry collaborations and partnerships are more critical than ever to help businesses and consumers stay secure online. We first launched the Works with YubiKey (WWYK) program in 2018 with this in mind […]
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What CISA and NSA’s ESF guidance means for critical infrastructure cybersecurityThe Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) recently collaborated to produce an important new document, “Identity and Access Management: Recommended Best Practices for Administrators.” Part of the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), it presents a distillation of identity access management (IAM) and cybersecurity guidance put forth by CISA to date, based […]
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YubiEnterprise Services reaches a new milestone with SOC 2 Type 2 attestation reportOver the years, we have witnessed malicious actors taking aim at organizational supply chains, seeking to exploit the weakest link in enterprises. Increasingly, passwords and even legacy multi-factor authentication (MFA) methods are being swiftly bypassed by phishing and ransomware – resulting in significant financial and reputational damage to organizations, as well as severe threats to […]
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The six biggest misconceptions about Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)We talk a lot about Zero Trust architectures (ZTAs) at Yubico because we’d like to see every customer embrace its guiding principle: no user, whether they are authenticating from inside or outside the organization, has implicit trust granted. Additionally, the authentication method must be phishing-resistant and provide signals that attest to the protection of the […]
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Yubico joins industry cybersecurity leaders at White House symposium to collaborate, discuss top security challenges and solutionsLast week, several Yubico leaders traveled to Washington, DC to attend the White House’s symposium focused on modernizing authentication in support of Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, and the OMB Memo M-22-09 describing the Federal Zero Trust architecture. This event, organized by the Federal CIO & CISO and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure […]
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Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) adds FIDO2 support on iOS and Conditional Access Authentication Strengths now generally availableIn an effort to protect the nation’s infrastructure and improve cybersecurity, the Executive Order 14028 and the Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 took a strong stance to require phishing-resistant authentication for all federal agencies. The M-22-09 memo also specifies two standards-based authentication protocols that will satisfy the phishing-resistant requirements, FIDO2/WebAuthn and PIV smart […]
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YubiEnterprise Services update: Single sign-on capabilities for greater enterprise scale and speedYubico’s YubiEnterprise Subscription pioneers hardware multi-factor authentication (MFA), the gold standard of enterprise authentication, as a phishing-resistant MFA ‘as-a-Service’ model that helps organizations save money and gain flexibility while experiencing faster rollouts. As part of consistently delivering value to organizations that are raising the bar for security at scale, we are prioritizing delivering meaningful updates […]
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