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How will authentication standards evolve in 2021 and beyond?Authentication standards development is like a slow-moving, winding river. It often takes years of dedicated work to reach new milestones, yet it feeds the entire security ecosystem and sustains digital workflow safety throughout the enterprise. While the benefits of this river are often invisible to the end-user, CISOs and developers are thinking about the river’s […]
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What is CTAP?
How does CTAP work? FIDO2 consists of two standardized components, a web API (WebAuthn) and a version 2 of CTAP. The two work together and are required to achieve a passwordless experience for login. The earlier FIDO U2F (Link to FIDO U2F Glossary) protocol working with external authenticators is now renamed to CTAP1 in the WebAuthn specifications. […]
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What is FIDO Universal 2nd Factor?
What does it mean to be FIDO U2F Certified? FIDO’s certification programs are a critical element in ensuring an interoperable ecosystem of products and services that organizations can leverage to deploy FIDO Authentication solutions worldwide. FIDO Alliance manages functional certification programs for its various specifications (e.g. U2F and FIDO2) to validate product conformance and interoperability. […]
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What is FIDO 2?
What does it mean to be FIDO2 Certified? FIDO’s certification programs are a critical element in ensuring an interoperable ecosystem of products and services that organizations can leverage to deploy FIDO Authentication solutions worldwide. FIDO Alliance manages functional certification programs for its various specifications (e.g. U2F and FIDO2) to validate product conformance and interoperability. A FIDO2-certified device, […]
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FIDO2 passwordless authentication
Improved usability Use of a hardware-based security key is fast and easy. For FIDO2 supported services, users are freed from having to remember and type passwords. Strong account security Replaces weak passwords with strong hardware-based authentication using Private / Public Key (asymmetric) cryptography. One key to all accounts A single security key that can work […]
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Authentication standards
Making the internet safer for everyone Strong security Stolen credentials from employees, vendors and customers are at the root of the majority of account takeovers. The YubiKey provides advanced phishing protection to stop account takeovers. Ease of use The YubiKey is crush-resistant and water-resistant. It requires no battery or cellular network connectivity and its simple […]
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Atlassian unifies user authentication to improve employee productivity with YubiKeysAtlassian uses YubiKeys to increase productivity, supporting a wide variety of MFA needs.
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Multinational engineering firm Maire Tecnimont goes passwordlessMaire Tecnimont goes passwordless to improve both security and user experience.
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WebAuthn: Why It Should Matter to the Public Sector and How It WorksWebAuthn makes fast and easy authentication a reality.
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What’s new in Yubico PIV Tool 2.0?New open authentication standards, FIDO2 and WebAuthn, have been getting a lot of attention lately with tech giants like Apple joining industry adoption. As a core creator of these standards, we celebrate these milestones, but our mission here at Yubico is to make a safer internet for all. In addition to driving new open web […]
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