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  • Future-Proof Authentication & Compliance for Healthcare – YubicoHealthcare continues to remain one of the most highly targeted industries by cyber criminals. In fact, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry has seen a doubling of the number of cyber attacks – attacks which are both costly ($9.23 million, on average) and disruptive. What’s even more troubling is that these attacks are likely to […]Read moreauthenticationcompliancehealthcarepasswordless
  • Put Your Finger on the Pulse of What’s New with the YubiKey Bio SeriesToday, we are announcing the YubiKey Bio Series, Yubico’s first-ever YubiKeys supporting biometric authentication. The YubiKey Bio was first previewed at Microsoft Ignite in 2019 where we showed a live demo of passwordless sign-in to Microsoft Azure Active Directory accounts. We’ve taken the time to ensure that we are launching products that are highly secure […]Read morebiometricspasswordlessWebAuthnYubiKeyYubiKey Bio
  • Why Financial Services Shouldn’t Wait for Regulators to Address Strong AuthenticationFinancial institutions face some of the most stringent and complex regulatory requirements, including financial service compliance requirements around authentication. So much so that the financial service industry is broadly considered the gold standard from a compliance perspective. To comply with existing regulations and thwart cyber attacks, financial institutions were early adopters of two-factor authentication (2FA) […]Read more2FAcompliancefinancial services
  • YubiKey (4) FIPS Series end of sale and movement to CMVP Historical Validation ListEarlier this year, Yubico introduced the YubiKey 5 FIPS Series. This new line-up of FIPS 140-2 validated YubiKeys enables government agencies and regulated industries to meet the highest authenticator assurance level 3 (AAL3) requirements from the new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP800-63B guidance. Our previous YubiKey (4) FIPS Series which we introduced […]Read more
  • Yubico’s Secure It Forward program donates YubiKeys to populations that need them mostSince its inception in 2020, Yubico for Free Speech has not only celebrated moments in time with partner organizations but has also donated YubiKeys to over 45 organizations in 20 different countries – all of which was possible thanks to Yubico’s customers.   Yubico for Free Speech, a program where Yubico donates one YubiKey for every […]Read more
  • Yubico continues to pioneer enterprise integrations with security keysToday, we are excited to announce the general availability of the YubiKey SDK for Desktop that went into public beta in June 2021. It’s an exciting time for Yubico as we launch a key piece of our software portfolio that our enterprise customers and partners have been testing with us that is now ready for […]Read more
  • Hybrid work driven by Covid-19 prompts a shift in financial services security prioritiesAll industries are dealing with the thorny issue of who comes back to work during the pandemic and who doesn’t, and the return-to-work plans will diverge depending on each enterprise’s needs and culture. But banks, financial institutions, and many other players in the financial services industry are paying close attention to the security perils of […]Read morefinancial servicessecurity
  • Zero Trust is the new regulatory minimum for Federal agencies: what does that mean for authentication?The deadline is looming for federal agencies to implement impersonation-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), just one of the new stronger security requirements under President Biden’s new cybersecurity executive order (EO 14028). The EO puts security front and center to address some of the worst cyber attacks against the federal government, setting up new federal compliance expectations […]Read moregovernmentMFAzero trust
  • YubiKey on a desk next to a laptGitHub no longer accepts passwords for Git authentication, secure your accounts with YubiKeyGitHub has been a longstanding supporter of strong security for its customers and developer communities. From its most recent support for using U2F and FIDO2 security keys for SSH, to its 2019 announcement of Web Authentication (WebAuthn) support for security keys and 2015 Universal Second Factor (U2F) support, the company has continued to give its […]Read moreauthenticationGitHubpasswordless
  • Everything you need to know about the revised eIDAS regulationIn June 2021, the EU Commission announced its plans for a revised eIDAS regulation. eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services) is the EU regulation 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services in the EU. It came into force in 2014, so the revision is a major update to eIDAS. The past two years the […]Read moreauthenticationeidasgovernment