PKO Bank Polski Adds Support for Yubico’s YubiKey Security Keys 

Modern hardware-based authentication provides customers with phishing-resistant security for online accounts

SANTA CLARA, CA and STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN- October 7, 2024 – Yubico (NASDAQ: YUBICO), the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, today announced PKO Bank Polski (Warsaw Stock Exchange: PKO), a Polish multinational banking and financial services company, has enabled the use of Yubico’s FIDO-based YubiKeys for their customers to authenticate with the highest level of security when logging into their e-banking service iPKO.

Why: With a phishing attack happening globally every second, it’s more critical than ever for individuals to protect their most personal and sensitive information. PKO Bank Polski is leading the way by embracing and implementing YubiKeys to protect its customers. By enabling Yubico’s easy to use YubiKey for secure login, the financial institution is providing customers with the tool they need to become more phishing-resistant. 

What: PKO Bank Polski customers can now use the YubiKey as their second factor authentication method to login to their accounts. This FIDO-based, small, portable hardware authenticator supports USB-A/C, Lightning and NFC. The YubiKey securely provides the user’s credential  online whenever a supported service requires multi-factor authentication. 

The YubiKey supports multiple authentication protocols, allowing it to serve as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) or second factor device across numerous applications and services. Today, it is used by millions of people in over 160 countries, including small businesses and some of the world’s largest enterprises. Its ubiquity means that a single key can work across all major operating systems, mobile devices, and thousands of different applications and services, providing robust security in a wide variety of contexts. 

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About Yubico

Yubico (Nasdaq First North Growth Market Stockholm: YUBICO), the inventor of the YubiKey, offers the gold standard for phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), stopping account takeovers in their tracks and making secure login easy and available for everyone. Since the company was founded in 2007, it has been a leader in setting global standards for secure access to computers, mobile devices, servers, browsers, and internet accounts. Yubico is a creator and core contributor to the FIDO2, WebAuthn, and FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) open authentication standards, and is a pioneer in delivering modern, hardware-based passkey authentication security at scale to customers in over 160 countries.

Yubico’s solutions enable passwordless logins using the most secure form of passkey technology. YubiKeys work out-of-the-box across hundreds of consumer and enterprise applications and services, delivering strong security with a fast and easy experience.

As part of its mission to make the internet more secure for everyone, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations helping at-risk individuals through the philanthropic initiative, Secure it Forward. The company is headquartered in Stockholm and Santa Clara, CA. For more information on Yubico, visit us at www.yubico.com.

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