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  • Why strong authentication for every employee makes senseBy now, it’s an all-too-familiar routine… Step 1: Organization suffers an expensive and embarrassing security breach.  Step 2: Organization hastily introduces multi-factor authentication (or steps up its efforts to mandate its usage).  Oftentimes, it takes a breach to make organizations fully embrace strong authentication. But why? We know that usernames and passwords alone cannot provide sufficient security, and we know that SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) has been deprecated time […]Read morefeaturedmultifactor authenticationsecuritystrong authentication
  • Why 3 government agencies are relying on hardware-based MFA with YubiKeysAmerica’s government is under attack. To put it more accurately, its governments are under attack, all the time, at every level — federal, state, and local — from opportunistic scammers, sophisticated cybercriminals, and even state actors. We’ve all seen the stories about intelligence services stealing political emails, snooping into election systems, and even penetrating the US power grid. But those are just […]Read morefeaturedfederal governmentgovernmentstate and local government
  • Wrapping up 2020: A year where technology and internet security prevailedNever 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 morephishingsecurityWebAuthnyubico.comYubiHSM
  • 4 things ‘Among Us’ can teach professionals about authenticationYou’re making good progress on this task. One more data upload and then you’re out of here. But right before you can complete the upload, a klaxon blares. There’s been an attack! Time to head to the meeting room for the usual finger-pointing and scapegoating before the team decides who to jettison from the ship. […]Read moreauthenticationcybersecurityremote workerssecurity
  • Lessons from the SolarWinds incidentLast week, a large and expertly run espionage operation was made public — one that began no later than October 2019, and which had been actively exploiting victims since at least early 2020. This incident is particularly interesting for several reasons: for the breadth of sensitive global government and industry targets, for misuse of a […]Read moreidentity and access managementNISTsecurityWebAuthn
  • Yubico releases new public beta versions of iOS and Android mobile SDKsToday, Yubico is excited to release public beta versions of the next generation of our mobile SDKs for both iOS and Android platforms. The Yubico Mobile SDKs can be used to integrate multi-protocol YubiKey support into mobile apps via near-field communication (NFC), Lightning, and USB connections (USB available for Android only). With this public preview, we want to give […]Read moreandroidios authentication
  • #YubiSecure: Take your Twitter security to the next level with increased 2FA supportGreat news YubiFans! As of today, Twitter made it a lot easier for you to tweet safely and keep your accounts secure. Phishing-resistant YubiKey authentication via WebAuthn is now supported on Twitter’s desktop, Android and iOS mobile applications.  With native WebAuthn support throughout the Twitter platform, you can register and use a USB-, NFC-, or Lightning-compatible security key, like […]Read more2FAWorks with YubiKeywwyk
  • AWS Expands YubiKey Support with AWS SSO WebAuthn IntegrationAnother win for FIDO at the heels of its first industry conference, Authenticate 2020.  AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) has introduced native WebAuthn support to secure user access to AWS accounts and business applications using strong, FIDO-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) with YubiKeys.  Broader choice of authentication methods by AWS SSO is a win for modern authentication that has historically […]Read moreauthenticationFIDOWorks with YubiKeywwyk
  • Go passwordless with the new Yubico WebAuthn Starter KitWebAuthn is the latest open standard for modern online authentication that is highly phishing resistant, combining high security with a simple and easy user experience. With WebAuthn, any web service can integrate strong authentication into applications using support built-in to all leading browsers and platforms. This means that web services can now easily offer users […]Read moreAWSpasswordlessWebAuthn
  • Yubico proposes WebAuthn protocol extension to simplify backup security keysOne of the most common questions people have about YubiKeys, and security keys in general, is: “What if I lose my key?”  While WebAuthn and FIDO2, the open standards for security key authentication, promise strong, phishing-resistant and — perhaps most importantly — easy-to-use multi-factor authentication, this question still remains. As of today, there are no answers that […]Read morecybersecuritysecurity keyWebAuthn