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  • Secure login for everyoneIn early 2016, a major enterprise (that at the time was not yet a Yubico customer) asked us two great questions. Why does Yubico exist? And how come 9 of the top 10 internet companies trust a company with less than 100 employees? In this, our first blog of the year, we will share the […]Read moreabout Yubico
  • U2F Security Key Cuts Google AdWords FraudAfter a successful deployment of FIDO U2F enabled YubiKeys for all its staff, Google is now seeing the benefits of offering the technology to its customers with AdWords accounts. Hijacking of online advertising accounts not only costs customers whose accounts get bumped offline, but Google loses revenue when those accounts are dormant. The Association of […]Read moreFIDO U2F security keyGoogle
  • Give the Gift Security Geeks Love to Get‘Tis the season to be jolly and reflect on everything we’re thankful for. It’s been an incredible year at Yubico, and we’re delighted YubiKeys continue to make news this gift giving season. We’ve compiled our favorite gift guides because these are just too awesome not to share. And yes, we’re on each of them! PCWorld 5 […]Read moreabout Yubicosecurity key
  • Computer Login with YubiKey in Smart Card ModeThe humble smart card dates back to the 1970s, but the mature technology is not without innovation in a world of new-fangled authentication. Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards, best known as staples in government agencies, incorporate standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Yubico’s recent webinar, “YubiKey Smart Code Mode […]Read moreNISTPIVsmart cardYubiKey
  • Dreamforce 2016 – FIDO U2F YubiKey Log In to SalesforceMomentum is the motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity. Today, we see the mass and velocity of the world’s largest cloud ecosystem get behind FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) strong authentication. At this week’s Dreamforce 2016, conference attendees will get the first look at new native support […]Read moreabout Yubico
  • Lock down your login with YubiKey“78 percent [of Americans] strongly or somewhat agree it is important that companies, government entities and other stakeholders work together to find new ways of securing accounts beyond the use of passwords.” – National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Strong Authentication Survey, July 2016 Research is clear — the world needs new and better ways of […]Read moreabout Yubicoauthentication
  • yubikey inside macbookYubiKey Smart Card Support For macOS SierraHave you ever wanted to use your YubiKey to protect your Mac? Starting today, PIV-enabled YubiKeys can be used to log in to your Mac and your Keychain on macOS Sierra without complex configurations or software. Up until the release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) in July 2011, Apple included native support for login […]Read moreApplePIVsmart card
  • Yubico awarded NSTIC grantYubico received a $2.27 million grant today to develop and deploy a pilot program to enable US citizens to securely access state and local government services. The grant comes through the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of the White House initiative National Strategy for Trusted Identities in […]Read moregovernmentstate and local government
  • Over A Dozen Services Supporting FIDO U2FUpdated Oct. 10, 2016 to include U2F support added to Opera browser, Salesforce Creating standards is hard work that only sweetens when the market starts to arrive and validate the effort with real world deployments. On June 22, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Sentry all released support for FIDO U2F strong authentication in their cloud-based products. None of […]Read moreauthenticationU2F
  • The Future of Secure Online IdentitiesSince I started my journey as a hardware authentication innovator, I have heard people say that the future of authentication is software. Or TPMs. Or biometrics. Or invisible data intelligence that will silently protect us all. Today, it is fair to say that all these predictions were right – when they are combined into a […]Read moreabout Yubico