Press releases
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Yubico CEO Acknowledged for Business Achievements In total, 39 nominations have been submitted in the three award categories, which indicates that this young award has established a widespread reputation in the Swedish-American business community. The winners will be determined by a jury consisting of high-profile business individuals, including Rikard Steiber, Global Ads Marketing Director at Google, and Jan Uddenfeldt, Chief Technology […] Read more -
YubiKey Survives Ten Weeks in a Washing Machine The YubiKey is not only ultra-thin, crush safe and battery-free, it is water-resistant as well. It has both survived diving 48 meters down in salt water and more than two months of laundry. “We found it in the door sealing of the washing machine” said the owner of the YubiKey. “After wiping it dry, it […] Read more -
Yubico Launches New Innovation to Secure Servers Hundreds of thousands of servers around the world are storing sensitive user data and cryptographic secrets related to users. A rapidly increasing number of incidents where servers have been attacked and sensitive user data has been compromised have highlighted the urgent need for better protection of servers. However, the high cost and complexity involved […] Read more -
TriMet Enhances Security with YubiKey Authentication TriMet provides public transportation for the Portland, Oregon metro area and had been using legacy security tokens for authenticating their remote users. Due to the increased cost and security concerns with the previous solution, TriMet started evaluating alternative authentication technologies and found that the YubiKey was the best fit. The YubiKey did not only provide a higher […] Read more -
Yubico Brings Two-Factor Authentication to Mortgage Industry Many online web services are protected only by a single password; but within the past year, compromised identities and stolen passwords have exposed weaknesses in this “single-factor” authentication. By offering their customers the security of two-factor authentication, Avantus provides their customers the protection they need to securely access credit information. “In the mortgage industry, the […] Read more -
Yubico and OneLogin Bring Secure Access to Financial Cloud Sterling Knight, a financial services company based in Singapore, is using the innovative authentication key from Yubico and OneLogin’s single sign-on and identity management service. The convenient key generates a One-Time Password (OTP) used by Sterling Knight remote workers to securely access the OneLogin Application Portal, protecting access to its Web applications without compromising ease-of-use. “With […] Read more -
High School Uses YubiKey to Login Securely to Google Apps As more and more e-services move to the cloud, so do fraudsters. Online identity theft is today the fastest growing crime with more than a trillion US dollars in yearly losses. To address this problem, the Swedish Data Inspection Board requires all Swedish local e-governments and schools to move from username and password login to […] Read more -
Yubico and ForgeRock Partner for Secure and Open Source SSO Cloud computing brings computer and data resources to the cloud and offers higher efficiency, massive scalability and faster and easier software development. Yubico and ForgeRock envision a world of many clouds – public and private – that are open, secure and interoperable and this partnership is one step closer to that vision. ForgeRock is a […] Read more -
Yubico Introduces YubiHSM to Protect Secrets on Servers Hundreds of thousands of servers around the world are storing sensitive user data and cryptographic secrets related to users. A rapidly increasing number of these servers are being attacked remotely via the Internet, where user data becomes compromised. Despite the growing need for secure servers, the high cost for Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), with […] Read more -
Swedish Healthcare Uses YubiKey for Securing Access to Patient Data Riks-Stroke, the national register center for acute stroke, is one of the largest quality registers in Sweden. All Swedish hospitals admitting acute stroke patients participate. With more than a quarter of a million stroke events recorded, Riks-Stroke plays a leading role in European collaboration of stroke registers. In October 2010, the Swedish Data Inspection Agency […] Read more