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  • How State and Local Governments Combat Account TakeoversRead how state and local governments are securing workers, election infrastructure, and digital services using the YubiKey for strong authenticationRead moregovernmentstate and local governmentstrong authentication
  • Who can CISOs trust? Sharing information is both essential and a professional hazardPresident Biden’s recent executive order on cybersecurity calls on the public sector to work with private companies to create more secure environments and emphasizes the importance of sharing information as a best practice. Many of us may see “information sharing” as a synonym for risk or liability as information sharing requires a lot of caution. […]Read moreCISOcybersecuritygovernmentleadership
  • Yubico’s top information security recommendations for 2022Last  week, we shared a look back at 2021, which experienced an increase in the number of high profile security breaches, many involving devastating ransomware attacks. Attackers preyed on traditionally softer targets like hospitals, schools, and local governments, in addition to the continued focus on the supply chain. Although the root cause for many of […]Read moreauthenticationgovernmentMFAphishingprivacyzero trust
  • Zero Trust is the new regulatory minimum for Federal agencies: what does that mean for authentication?The deadline is looming for federal agencies to implement impersonation-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), just one of the new stronger security requirements under President Biden’s new cybersecurity executive order (EO 14028). The EO puts security front and center to address some of the worst cyber attacks against the federal government, setting up new federal compliance expectations […]Read moregovernmentMFAzero trust
  • Everything you need to know about the revised eIDAS regulationIn June 2021, the EU Commission announced its plans for a revised eIDAS regulation. eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services) is the EU regulation 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services in the EU. It came into force in 2014, so the revision is a major update to eIDAS. The past two years the […]Read moreauthenticationeidasgovernment
  • Seven tips if you’re still scratching your head after reading Biden’s cybersecurity executive orderYubico works with a lot of federal agencies and contractors, as well as with customers in regulated industries, so we understand the challenges new compliance regulations can bring. The executive order that was released May 12 can be seen as the federal government fully embracing the move toward multi-factor authentication (MFA) for use cases where […]Read moregovernmentPIVPublic SectorYubiKey FIPS Series
  • Entrust to add support for YubiKeys with PIV – YubicoToday marks an important day for expanding Yubico’s reach to support the growing requirement for Government agencies to issue government credentials beyond Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards. We are celebrating that our partner Entrust will soon launch support for derived PIV credentials for YubiKeys. Customers will be able to take advantage of YubiKeys with derived […]Read moregovernmentPIVPublic Sector
  • Yubico and ID.me provide remote identity proofing, YubiKey delivery, and strong authentication for NY Air National Guard (and see our joint presentation at Identiverse)The pandemic has forced a digital transformation of how and where employees work at an accelerated rate, driving remote work scenarios for tens of thousands of state and federal personnel. These accelerated work scenarios require users to be strongly verified and authenticated. A strong binding between the remote identity proofing process and the authenticator is […]Read moregovernmentPublic Sectorremote workers
  • State of Alert: Multi-factor authentication and the future of dataRead this report to learn why multi-factor authentication is critical for state and local government agencies, the consequences of not strengthening authentication, and how to bridge to a passwordless futureRead moregovernmentMFApasswordlessstate and local government
  • Osterman Cyber Security in GovernmentLearn how the government sector faces a growing complex of cybersecurity threats.Read morecybersecuritygovernmentstate and local government