Company: Yubico
Solution: Security key that enables secure two-factor or multi-factor authentication without a password
Locations: Germany, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and Sweden
Founders: Stina Ehrensvärd, CEO, and Jakob Ehrensvärd, CTO
Yubico was founded in Sweden 2007 with the mission to make secure login easy and available for everyone. In 2011, Stina, CEO & Founder, and Jakob, Chief Innovation Officer & Founder, moved to Silicon Valley to make the dream happen. In close collaboration with the leading internet companies and thought leaders we created native support for our security keys in the major online platforms and browsers, enabling a safer internet for billions of people. Their team is located in 11 countries, and their security keys, manufactured in Sweden and USA.
Yubico pioneered the design of the first one-time password authenticator to work with a simple touch and with no client software, and we made it compatible with the open authentication standard OATH. We then further secured and simplified the PIV smart card standard by adding touch-to-sign and built-in attestation. And in close collaboration with Google and Microsoft, we co-created the FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) and FIDO2 open authentication standards. Our work has been contributed to open identity standards organizations W3C, IETF, FIDO Alliance and OpenID.
The YubiKey 5 Series eliminates account takeovers by providing strong phishing defense using multi-protocol capabilities that can secure legacy and modern systems. The series provides a range of authentication choices including strong two-factor, multi-factor and passwordless authentication, and seamless touch-to-sign.
The YubiKey Bio is a hardware authenticator with support for fingerprint recognition.
The Security Key by Yubico Series is comprised of a single key – the Security Key NFC – which combines hardware-based authentication, public key cryptography, and the U2F and FIDO2/WebAuthn protocols to eliminate account takeovers.
The YubiKey 5 FIPS certified security keys meet the highest level of assurance (AAL3) of the new NIST SP800-63B guidelines.
Game changing cryptographic protection for servers, applications and computing devices.