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May 2, 2022
YubiKeys protecting critical IT infrastructure in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a battle in both the physical and the digital world. On both sides, information warfare plays a more critical part of the battlefield than any other war in human history, with the biggest attack vector and threat being weak login credentials. According to a Ukraine cybersecurity executive at a …
Apr 26, 2022
The real reason legacy authentication doesn’t work for shared workstations
Most organizations struggle with legacy authentication, with passwords and mobile-based solutions a source of security risk, high IT cost, and frustrated users. However, for organizations with shared workstations and shared device environments, these pain points are only intensified. Shared workstations—common across industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail and hospitality, financial services, energy, utilities, oil and …
Apr 13, 2022
Shopping for cyber insurance? Six questions to ask before you call the insurer
The cyberthreat landscape has always been worrisome, but today there are many more CISOs noticing new gray hairs in the mirror given an anticipated uptick in cyber attacks from nation states and other bad actors. Ransomware attacks and other forms of account compromise continue to grace the news every month with malicious actors – state-sponsored …
Apr 4, 2022
Q&A: Yubico’s Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer Jakob Ehrensvärd
It’s not every day you get to hear a pioneer of internet security share why you and the rest of the world needs modern, reliable and easy-to-use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). If you want to understand phishing-resistant authentication and why it matters, there’s nobody better to ask than Jakob Ehrensvärd, Yubico’s co-founder. Jakob built his first …
Mar 31, 2022
YubiKeys, passkeys and the future of modern authentication
A brief history on authentication A lot has happened in the world of authentication and security since we first introduced the YubiKey back in 2008. In this blog, we’ll review where we are in the world of open authentication standards, discuss the addition of the ‘passkey’ term, and share what the future holds for modern …
Mar 30, 2022
White House declaration: act now for cybersecurity attack protection
Last week, President Biden made a statement that couldn’t have been clearer in its message regarding cybersecurity attack protection to the private sector: “If you have not already done so, I urge our private sector partners to harden your cyber defenses immediately by implementing the best practices we have developed together over the last year …
Mar 17, 2022
YubiKey as a smart card on iOS
Certificate-based smart cards have been one of the most trusted and proven implementations of multi-factor authentication for over 20 years. There’s only one problem… the typical credit card-shaped smart card didn’t work well, if at all, on mobile devices without additional hardware and software. Today, smart cards come in many form factors, from a credit …