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Is your organization ready to go passwordless? – Yubico We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: the road to passwordless is a journey, not an overnight transition. At first, it begins with a basic understanding of what passwordless authentication is (and isn’t), but then it becomes time to take action and head further down the road. Still, the question for every enterprise IT […] Read more passwordless professional services -
The YubiKey 5 FIPS Series is here and there are 5 things you need to know Today, we’re thrilled to announce yet another product milestone in addition to the launch of YubiHSM 2 FIPS — the long-awaited YubiKey 5 FIPS Series is now generally available. It is the industry’s first set of multi-protocol security keys with support for FIDO2 and WebAuthn, along with smart card (PIV/CAC), to receive FIPS 140-2 validation, Overall […] Read more compliance FIPS 140-2 YubiKey FIPS Series -
A Yubico first…introducing the YubiHSM 2 FIPS 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 today we’ve not only launched the YubiKey 5 FIPS Series but also the smallest FIPS-validated hardware security module (HSM) in the world, […] Read more compliance FIPS 140-2 YubiHSM 2 -
World Press Freedom Day: Uplifting security stories from the field Today, Yubico celebrates World Press Freedom Day, a day committed to supporting a mission that we believe in whole-heartedly: protecting journalistic voices across the globe. Without the foundational pieces of free speech, democracy, or an open internet, our mission of making the internet a safer place will have no impact. So, to do our part […] Read more free speech press -
How will authentication standards evolve in 2021 and beyond? Authentication standards development is like a slow-moving, winding river. It often takes years of dedicated work to reach new milestones, yet it feeds the entire security ecosystem and sustains digital workflow safety throughout the enterprise. While the benefits of this river are often invisible to the end-user, CISOs and developers are thinking about the river’s […] Read more FIDO2 PIV strong authentication WebAuthn -
Multi-factor authentication adoption – Yubico and 451 Research Within a few days of last year’s pandemic shut down in March, the business world knew something had permanently changed about the workplace. Millions of workers flooded out of traditional office environments, perhaps never to return. Security professionals worldwide scrambled to make transitioning to remote work painless, but in many cases they weren’t prepared for […] Read more multifactor authentication passwordless -
Yubico Q&A with John Kindervag, creator of Zero Trust and Senior Vice President at ON2IT Zero Trust has truly come of age in the last 12 months, but there are misconceptions relating to what it is, where to start on the journey, and how organizations can achieve a Zero Trust environment. To further explore this topic, we recently sat down with John Kindervag, the creator of Zero Trust and current […] Read more zero trust -
A security tool that nobody wants to use – Yubico To continue our effort to peel back the layers on the journey to passwordless, Yubico talked with former Navy intelligence officer and University of Tulsa professor, Sal Aurigemma, about his research in the behavioral information security field. Professor Aurigemma focuses on end-user experiences and adoption rates of authentication technologies. He regularly runs field experiments with […] Read more MFA passwordless -
Cloud vs. On-Prem: Why on-prem can bring your next data breach Most CISOs and IT teams spend their time asking themselves “when”, not “if”, they will be the next company to suffer a data breach. And rightfully so. The frequency of data breaches is skyrocketing, with no sign of slowing down. To help quantify the problem, recent research from Canalys shows that there were more records […] Read more data breach digital transformation identity and access management -
Discover passwordless with Okta and YubiKey at Oktane21 Okta’s premier identity conference, Oktane21, is taking place virtually on April 6-8, and Yubico is once again a proud sponsor. This year, Yubico will highlight our continued partnership with Okta and showcase the YubiKey as the key to trust. Okta Adaptive MFA and the phishing-resistant YubiKey allow organizations to quickly and securely deploy strong multi-factor […] Read more Okta passwordless