Tag: YubiKey
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Ready, Set, Earn: Become a Yubico Affiliate through Amazon We have great news for Yubico ambassadors! We’ve found a program that carries on the values of our now-retired Yubico Affiliate Program while empowering affiliates to profit from products they choose to advocate. Amazon’s widely successful Amazon Associates program is booming for a reason. The program gives everyone a chance to earn up to 10% […] Read more -
Leave Nothing to Chance: Have a Backup and Recovery Plan A backup and recovery process is an indispensable component of every security solutions strategy, and is something to think carefully about as you develop a plan to integrate YubiKeys into yours. Having a proper backup and recovery process keeps employees productive without them having to worry about losing their YubiKey or losing access to systems […] Read more -
YubiKey And The Route To USB-C The USB-C standard has caused a lot of chatter among Apple users, some concerning the elegance of fewer wires but mostly from those that miss absent ports, such as HDMI and USB 3.0, on newer MacBooks. Yubico has received requests to join the USB-C evolution and release a USB-C compatible YubiKey. We have built a […] Read more -
UK Becomes the First Government to Offer Secure Online Identities Based on FIDO U2F Standards STOCKHOLM & AMSTERDAM, March 23, 2016 – Yubico, the leading provider of simple, open and strong authentication, and Digidentity, a leading identity service provider, today announced a partnership to enable FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) authentication and YubiKeys for UK government services. The joint solution allows all UK citizens to easily and securely access GOV.UK […] Read more -
YubiKey and U2F at CES ShowStoppers – Yubico Demonstrates Mobile Contactless, Tokenless, and Passwordless Authentication PALO ALTO, CA, JAN. 6, 2016 – Yubico, the leading provider of simple and open online identity protection, today announced it will be participating at ShowStoppers @ CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2016. Yubico will be demonstrating the first FIDO U2F-certified NFC-enabled YubiKey and a preview of a software-based U2F mobile client that brings public-key cryptography […] Read more -
Hello, SSO. It’s me, authentication There’s a secret that single sign-on (SSO) never talks about. It’s called authentication. The SSO conversation starts without mentioning the assumption that the user is already logged in. A login that requires a password. Instead, SSO is quickly positioned to triumph over the dangers of weak and reused passwords. Many times, however, those same suspect passwords […] Read more -
Ode to the value of Backup YubiKey(s) A few weeks ago, I was in my hotel and reached into my pocket to get my YubiKey. Without it, I can’t log into certain email, CMS or other systems without going through an involved IT administrative process. The key was gone. That is an instantaneous bad feeling, wiped away only by the backup YubiKey […] Read more -
We Love Third-Party Validation! It’s always rewarding when you see third-party validation of your company’s product, and that is why today started off so well. In separate articles published today, Yubico’s YubiKey was highlighted for its tight security and ease of use by authors Don Sambandaraksa at TelecomAsia.net, which is aimed at the telecom market, and Greg Harvey, co-founder […] Read more -
YubiKey & BadUSB Updated Oct. 22, 2014 to include information on Security Key We have received a few questions with regards to “BadUSB” concept and the YubiKey, presented at BlackHat 2014. This was picked up by wired.com, where the problem domain is somewhat expanded into a claim that the “Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken”. Although there are a few […] Read more -
Lost YubiKey Best Practices We hope that you will not lose your YubiKey, but for larger deployments and serious use, establishing processes around lost YubiKeys is an important and challenging aspect. Yubico has offered the YubiRevoke service to help with this aspect, which is a centralized way to disable YubiKeys validated through the YubiCloud. Initially we thought this was […] Read more