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Why strong authentication for every employee makes sense By 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 more featured multifactor authentication security strong authentication -
Why 3 government agencies are relying on hardware-based MFA with YubiKeys America’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 more featured federal government government state and local government -
Wrapping up 2020: A year where technology and internet security prevailed 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 more phishing security WebAuthn yubico.com YubiHSM -
4 things ‘Among Us’ can teach professionals about authentication You’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 more authentication cybersecurity remote workers security -
Lessons from the SolarWinds incident Last 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 more identity and access management NIST security WebAuthn -
Yubico releases new public beta versions of iOS and Android mobile SDKs Today, 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 more android ios authentication -
#YubiSecure: Take your Twitter security to the next level with increased 2FA support Great 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 more 2FA Works with YubiKey wwyk -
AWS Expands YubiKey Support with AWS SSO WebAuthn Integration Another 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 more authentication FIDO Works with YubiKey wwyk -
Go passwordless with the new Yubico WebAuthn Starter Kit WebAuthn 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 more AWS passwordless WebAuthn -
Yubico proposes WebAuthn protocol extension to simplify backup security keys One 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 more cybersecurity security key WebAuthn