Since handing out the keys to its more than 85,000 employees in early 2017, it hasn’t had a single successful phishing attack on any of its workers’ accounts. To understand why enterprises are keen on authentication keys, all you need to do is look at Google’s experience with them. They include Okta, XTN and Monkton Rebar.Īuthentication keys have a greater appeal to enterprises right now than they do for consumers, Chong acknowledged, but “we will see that change as we get more browser support and more consumer applications enabled for authentication keys.” Some other enterprise applications include YubiKey 5Ci support in their developer kits. Single sign-on apps are used for secure access to corporate clouds from mobile devices. Idaptive, a single sign-on app for enterprise users, also is supported. They include several popular password managers - 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane and LastPass. The YubiKey 5Ci supports a number of Apple iOS applications out of the box. “You plug in this device, touch a button, and you’re good to go.” Password Manager Support “We wanted to make the process simple,” he continued. “People are using SMS or one-time pass codes delivered through email, which are not only bad from a security perspective but bad from a usability perspective because you’re typing in codes that you can get wrong,” Chong explained. That can improve security across the board, because people no longer need to use weak substitutes for the strong protection a hardware key can provide.

“This key has USB-C on one side and Lightning on the other so a user can authenticate to all the devices that they have,” he told TechNewsWorld.

“Before this key, it was really hard for a user to try and authenticate with a security key across multiple devices,” said Yubico Chief Solutions Officer Jerrod Chong. The dual connectors can give security-conscious consumers and enterprise users strong hardware-backed authentication across iOS, Android, macOS and Windows devices. Its new YubiKey 5Ci, which retails for US$70, supports both USB-C and Apple’s Lightning connectors on a single device.

Owners of iPhones looking for an extra measure of protection when using applications and logging into websites can get it with a new dongle from Yubico, a maker of hardware authentication security keys based in Palo Alto, California.

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