Tag: authentication
Jun 16, 2022
Introducing Yubico Authenticator 6 for Desktop
Today we’re releasing the first public beta version of Yubico Authenticator 6 for Desktop. This new version has some big changes under the hood, so let me explain what they are and why we’re doing them. Or, if you’re just eager to try it out, skip to the bottom of this post and click on …
Graduating from legacy MFA to modern authentication
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May 12, 2022
Laying the groundwork for continuous authentication
Continuous authentication is an emerging concept—a future ‘nirvana’ state of security that would provide the capability to validate a user’s identity in real-time as they maneuver between systems, applications, and devices. In theory, continuous authentication solutions would use risk signals from a variety of monitoring sources to authenticate users, identify potential threats and proactively remediate …
Yubico Releases MFA Guide in Recognition of World Password(less) Day
PALO ALTO, CA and STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – May 4, 2022 – In recognition of World Password Day, Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, today issued a multi-factor authentication (MFA) guide to help better define common and new industry terms, as well as the standards that are supporting modern authentication. While it is …
May 4, 2022
Making sense of the alphabet soup within authentication and modern MFA terminology
The vast majority of all cyberattacks start with stolen login passwords or other credentials. In a world that is moving to the cloud, our work, personal and government communication systems have become more accessible and vulnerable for anyone on the internet. Of all the different cyberattacks, credential phishing is by far the largest problem and …
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 …