• Lock down your login with YubiKey “78 percent [of Americans] strongly or somewhat agree it is important that companies, government entities and other stakeholders work together to find new ways of securing accounts beyond the use of passwords.” – National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Strong Authentication Survey, July 2016 Research is clear — the world needs new and better ways of […] Read more
• Over A Dozen Services Supporting FIDO U2F Updated Oct. 10, 2016 to include U2F support added to Opera browser, Salesforce Creating standards is hard work that only sweetens when the market starts to arrive and validate the effort with real world deployments. On June 22, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Sentry all released support for FIDO U2F strong authentication in their cloud-based products. None of […] Read more
• U2F, OIDC Team Up For Strong Authentication, Federation The New York Times sits elegantly secured behind authentication technology that combines a U2F-enabled YubiKey and standardized identity federation built on OpenID Connect (OIDC). It’s a colorful twist for a newspaper first published in 1851 and famously known as The Gray Lady. But linked with Google and Yubico, the trio is part of an identity […] Read more
• YubiKey And The Route To USB-C The USB-C standard has caused a lot of chatter among Apple users, some concerning the elegance of fewer wires but mostly from those that miss absent ports, such as HDMI and USB 3.0, on newer MacBooks. Yubico has received requests to join the USB-C evolution and release a USB-C compatible YubiKey. We have built a […] Read more
• Yubico CEO awarded KTH Great Prize Yubico is proud to announce that our CEO and Founder, Stina Ehrensvärd, has been named the winner of the 2016 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Great Prize.  Founded in 1827, KTH is Sweden’s first polytechnic university and is one of Scandinavia’s largest institutions of higher education in technology. First awarded in 1945, the annual KTH […] Read more
• Webinar showcases Centrify’s ID platform, YubiKey support Yubico’s partner Centrify has built one of the best showcases for the YubiKey’s multi-protocol versatility. With support for Personal Identity Verification (PIV)-based capabilities, one-time passwords (OTP), and mobile authentication, Centrify is the first identity and access management (IAM) platform to support such a deep lineup of protocols using a YubiKey. Centrify will detail and demo […] Read more
• U2F Best Innovation in eGovernment Awarded at EIC 2016 Last night at the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2016 (EIC) Awards Ceremony, Yubico and Digidentity’s submission for “Best Innovation in eGovernment/eCitizen” was awarded to the GOV.UK Verify project! The award was accepted by Adam Cooper, Identity Assurance Programme, Government Digital Service for GOV.UK Verify. Beginning in April 2016, GOV.UK Verify began offering beta support […] Read more
• U2F, OpenID Connect Align For Mobile Authentication A year ago, Yubico described a cord-cutting mobile world where hard-wired ports were not needed to accommodate the security benefits of strong authentication. Since then, growth in the mobile device market has continued its explosion, including 1.4 billion smartphones shipped worldwide in 2015, according to IDC. Couple this development with standards work by the FIDO […] Read more
• YubiKey Gets SC Magazine Five-Star Recognition “Weaknesses: None.”  When someone reviews your product, that’s a nice way for the write-up to start. Earlier this month, SC Magazine gave YubiKey 4 a five-star rating and tagged it a Best Buy in authentication. We don’t spend a lot of time patting ourselves on the back, but this honor recognizes goals we have always strived to […] Read more
• GitHub Verify Feature Strengthens YubiKey Value Often times, it’s the little things in life that bring the most satisfaction. For GitHub users, a shiny new “little thing” is available today. New “Verified” checkmarks in the Web interface document that commits are signed with GPG keys, which ensures the integrity of the code. No more downloading code from GitHub to verify commit […] Read more