• Why a kind and collaborative community is key to teaching kids how to code: Q&A with Mindee Barham, co-executive director of the Scratch Foundation Protecting a vulnerable population comes with a tremendous responsibility to ensure all of the proper security measures are taken. Scratch Foundation, an organization that creates a free, safe and playful educational environment for kids to learn coding, recently became a recipient of our Secure It Forward program where they received YubiKeys at no cost to […] Read more
• YubiHSM 2, the world’s smallest hardware security module, enhanced with new features to support security for the Public Sector Compliance mandates require many of our customers in regulated industries or in high-risk environments to prove adequate levels of protection for their data, no matter where it lives or travels. This is why we’ve continued to enhance the capabilities of both the YubiHSM 2 and YubiHSM 2 FIPS, the world’s smallest FIPS-validated and non-FIPS hardware […] Read more
• International Women’s Day: An interview with Yubico’s co-founder, Stina Ehrensvard Today, on International Women’s Day, which is celebrated every year on March 8, we wanted to take a moment to recognize and celebrate a woman who has been more than instrumental to the success of Yubico – our co-founder, Stina Ehrensvard.  Stina’s impact on Yubico serves as a reminder that women are crucial to shaping […] Read more
• Protecting those at-risk through corporate social responsibility In recent years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts have become an integral part of businesses, providing employees a greater purpose and helping customers connect to a brand beyond just the products or services they sell. With groundbreaking solutions being released on a daily basis in the tech world, it’s our responsibility to ensure we are […] Read more
• 2022: A year of phishing with a solution to calm the seas In 2022, phishing scams continued to hook into consumers and enterprise accounts. In fact, recent research from EMA revealed that 87% of surveyed businesses indicate that their organization experienced an identity-related security breach in the preceding 12 months. Many successes of the sophisticated phishing scams were due to legacy MFA implementations such as SMS, mobile […] Read more
• The Key to election security: Q&A with Michael Kaiser, president and CEO of Defending Digital Campaigns The election ecosystem is a prime target for cybersecurity threats and the 2022 United States Midterm election cycle has been no different. Though many security improvements have been made in recent years, bad actors continue to become more sophisticated in gaining access to private information – often driven by phishing attacks. Officials in charge of […] Read more
• Phishing attacks are on the rise: are you prepared with phishing-resistant MFA? It doesn’t have to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month to read a flurry of news about human-based phishing attack stories – also called smishing if the “fishing line” is cast via SMS. These attacks boil down to the art of tricking people into revealing personal information and credentials – including usernames, passwords, authentication codes, and sensitive […] Read more
• Closing the gap in account security in hybrid academic environment Over the last two years, students, faculty and administrators of academic and educational institutions have faced many challenges, including jumping between in-person and remote learning. With the introduction of new and shared devices to accommodate these ever-changing environments, hackers quickly took advantage of the gaps in account security that hadn’t yet been accounted for, which […] Read more
• Making sense of the alphabet soup within authentication and modern MFA terminology The vast majority of all cyberattacks start with stolen login passwords or other credentials. In a world that is moving to the cloud, our work, personal and government communication systems have become more accessible and vulnerable for anyone on the internet. Of all the different cyberattacks, credential phishing is by far the largest problem and […] Read more
• Donating YubiKeys globally to those who need it most – Yubico With current events unfolding daily around the world, the reality that everyone can be affected by impending cyberattacks has set in. Now, individuals around the world are wondering how to stay secure during tumultuous times like this (and in the future). So, what exactly are the best ways to secure oneself online and mitigate the […] Read more