• A new White House directive: Phishing-resistant MFA! The US Government’s Office of Management and Budget recently issued its Zero Trust Strategy, which would require that Federal agencies only use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication. This strategy comes on the heels of a number of other actions from the Executive Office of the President including a cybersecurity executive order in May. This executive order directed […] Read more
• The top 5 mobile authentication misconceptions – Yubico Download the Yubico White Paper, The top 5 mobile authentication misconceptions to learn the key misconceptions related to mobile-based MFA that are a ticking time bomb, and putting organizations at risk. Read more
• 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 more
• How the YubiKey meets US Government regulations | Yubico Learn how the YubiKey, a DOD approved alternate authenticator meets federal PIV/CAC requirements and government compliance regulations. Read more
• Modern Authentication for the Federal Government – Yubico Learn how DOD approved hardware security keys such as the YubiKey are ideal to fill PIV and CAC related authentication gaps across the federal government, and meet the MFA mandate in the Biden Executive Order 14028. Read more
• What is Strong Authentication Strong Authentication Definition Strong authentication confirms user identity reliably and safely, never solely based on shared secrets/symmetric keys such as passwords, codes, and recovery questions. Strong authentication assumes credential phishing and impersonation attacks are inevitable and robustly repels them. Although multi-factor authentication (MFA) remains among the best ways to establish who trusted users are, actual […] Read more
• YubiKey for password manager security Safeguard your digital accounts and personal data with Yubico’s password managers, offering multi-factor authentication for maximum security. Read more
• Yubico Research Reveals Lackluster Cybersecurity in Europe We all know there have been major paradigm shifts in the workplace caused by the pandemic. With the explosion of working from home (WFH), millions of employees now call their basements and bedrooms home offices. Security professionals scrambled to put together employee onboarding and authentication protocols that met new cybersecurity requirements for remote employees. Over […] Read more
• State of Alert: Multi-factor authentication and the future of data Read 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 future Read more
• 2021 Yubico and 451 Research Study: Work-from-Home Policies Driving MFA Adoption, But Still Work to be Done Learn preferences and adoption trends with respect to multi-factor authentication in the enterprise. Read more