Never has the world been more dependent on the internet, and never has it been more attacked than in 2020. In fact, it proved to be a year where trust in many of our systems was challenged. Yet I remain an eternal optimist and believe that we can transform the hard lessons learned in 2020 […]
Read moreThe first YubiKey was manufactured in Sweden in 2008. A few years later, part of our team moved from Stockholm to California, and we expanded our production capabilities to this part to the US West coast. It was a conscious choice to manufacture our products in the two democratic countries that were close to our […]
Read moreMost of our lives are now connected on the internet. We stay in touch with our loved ones, order food, talk to our doctors, do our banking — and now, many of us also work from home. We are all facing challenges we did not predict a few weeks ago. Never before has our society […]
Read moreThe first YubiKey was launched in 2008, inspired by the word ‘ubiquity’ and with the mission to make simple and secure logins available for everyone. At the time, we were less than 10 people in the company, but our strategy was simple: if we focused on further developing the YubiKey technology in close collaboration with […]
Read moreYubico was founded with the mission of making simple and secure logins ubiquitous. In 2008, we launched the first YubiKey for seamless, one-touch authentication. In 2012, in close collaboration with Google, Yubico’s inventions evolved into the FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) open authentication standard, and in 2014 it was launched in Gmail and Chrome. In […]
Read moreToday, I am excited to share that we have added yet another stellar member to the Yubico leadership team: Wendy Spies. Wendy comes from Microsoft where she most recently directed engineering strategy and business development for cloud and AI to build new products and markets. She will be focusing on similar things here at Yubico […]
Read moreToday, Yubico is excited to announce it has received a new round of investment led by Meritech Capital Partners, a top tier venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA. Existing investors include the Silicon Valley-based leading VCs Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and NEA, Swedish growth equity firm Bure, and renowned Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Marc Benioff, […]
Read more“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 moreThe 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 moreToday’s standardization of WebAuthn by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) marks a milestone in the history of open authentication standards and internet security, and Yubico is excited to be a part of it. Through close collaboration with the global internet standards community and the internet giants, Google and Microsoft, we achieved the near-impossible: the creation […]
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