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The Journey to Passwordless in the Enterprise Today, Microsoft announced that the passwordless capabilities for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) are in public preview, reaching a major milestone in enabling passwordless authentication in the Enterprise. Azure AD provides an identity platform with access management, scalability, and reliability for connecting users with all the apps they need. With FIDO2 and WebAuthn passwordless authentication […] Read more -
WebAuthn sees rapid growth and adoption: Visit us at Identiverse to see WebAuthn in action The new web authentication standard, known as WebAuthn, was recently approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in March, and is rapidly gaining momentum. Since 2007, Yubico has been driving the development of open standards, and collaborating with partners to bring more secure authentication methods to users. Through these combined efforts, we co-created WebAuthn. […] Read more -
Yubico Announces YubiKey for Lightning Partner Preview Program Today, Yubico is happy to announce the launch of our YubiKey for Lightning Partner Preview Program, the next phase of the YubiKey for Lightning Private Preview Program announced earlier this year. This is an exciting step forward for both Yubico and the Works with YubiKey ecosystem. With the launch of the Partner Preview Program, our […] Read more -
1Password rolls out WebAuthn, and enhanced YubiKey support Yubico has been a major contributor to the development of open standards for authentication from the initial development of the U2F specification to the latest W3C approved WebAuthn. As we see more services upgrade to modern authentication standards, we can’t help but share in the excitement. We are thrilled to share that 1Password, a password […] Read more -
5 Reasons to Upgrade Your Web Authentication to WebAuthn Authentication has made significant progress over the past five years. It has matured beyond passwords with the introduction of a variety of two-factor authentication methods, and most recently, we have the advent of passwordless logins with WebAuthn, the new global standard for web authentication. WebAuthn now sets a new bar for user authentication and is […] Read more -
WebAuthn wins support in Safari, Twitter, Coinbase and hundreds of more services “And the winner is… WebAuthn!” A few weeks ago at the European Identity Conference (EIC) in Munich, WebAuthn won the award for Best Future Technology and Standard Project. As a co-chair of the W3C WebAuthn working group and lead authors of FIDO U2F/FIDO2, Yubico was invited to receive the award on behalf of all who […] Read more -
YubiKey Summer Showcase: InfoSecurity, Gartner Security & Risk, Identiverse We’re gearing up for a busy and exciting month here at Yubico. We have a full event schedule, a handful of speaking sessions on trending security topics, and we will be showcasing many of our Works with YubiKey partners. In other words, you won’t want to miss this. If you are looking to integrate the […] Read more -
The YubiKey as the WebAuthn Root of Trust The new web authentication standard, WebAuthn, that was recently announced by W3C, is rapidly gaining adoption by leading platforms and services. WebAuthn is an evolution of the FIDO U2F standard, spearheaded by Yubico and Google, and successfully deployed since 2014 by millions of users with YubiKey security keys. Yubico helped to create WebAuthn to extend […] Read more -
YubiHSM 2 Now Compatible with EJBCA from PrimeKey The YubiHSM 2, the world’s smallest hardware security module from Yubico, is now compatible with EJBCA software for a range of public key infrastructure (PKI) use cases. Available for all YubiHSM 2.1 and newer devices, Yubico’s updated Setup Tool, which adds support for PrimeKey EJBCA, is accessible in our latest YubiHSM 2 open source software […] Read more