1748 / Augustin Ehrensvard designs Sveaborg an innovative fortress to protect Sweden against Russia, and is later ennobled by the Swedish king for this work. The fortress is today listed as a UNESCO world heritage site.
Yubico is founded in Stockholm, Sweden making secure login easy and available to everyone, and enabling one single authentication key to work across any number of services. Jakob Ehrensvard, CTO, electronic computer engineer, with direct lineage to the fortress engineer, and Stina Ehrensvard, CEO & Co-Founder, industrial product designer, develops a working prototype of the YubiKey 1.0, the world’s first one touch, one-time password authenticator, requiring no client or driver as it identifies itself as a keyboard.
On the Security Now podcast, YubiKey 1.0 is launched, two weeks after Stina meets the podcast host Steve Gibson at the top of an escalator at the RSA conference in San Francisco. The listeners of the podcast become Yubico’s first customers and contributors to our open source community.
2009 / Yubico adds “static password”
Yubico adds the new “static password” feature to the YubiKey, including the option of sending a static password, up to 60 characters long, with the YubiKey touch button. YubiKey 2.0 is launched with new innovative, high durability, moulded monoblock design.
2013 / FIDO and Personal Identity Verification
Yubico and Google contribute the U2F technical specifications to the FIDO Alliance, and then join as board members. OpenPGP is added as a feature to the YubiKey. Yubico also adds the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) feature with attestation to the YubiKey NEO.
2014 / First FIDO U2F Reference Design Launch
Google launches support for U2F security keys in Gmail and Chrome. Yubico launches the first FIDO U2F reference design in the form of the “blue” security key, and publishes free open source U2F server code, and technical support to service providers.
Yubico is founded in Stockholm, Sweden making secure login easy and available to everyone, and enabling one single authentication key to work across any number of services.
As of May 2024, Yubico has approximately 491 employees across 6 continents, including North AmericaEuropeAsia. Key team members include Chief Executive Officer: M. D.Chief Revenue Officer Cro: C. H.Chief Engineering Officer: H. T..
It is costly to design, mould, manufacture, sell and support a hardware product, even something as small as this. Since you don't want your 2FA company to go out of business there is good value in knowing they have a stable business model that can actually support a company rather than just burning capital.
Founded in 2007 by CEO Stina Ehrensvärd, Yubico is a private company with offices in Palo Alto, Seattle, and Stockholm. Yubico CTO, Jakob Ehrensvärd, is the lead author of the original strong authentication specification that became known as Universal 2nd Factor (U2F).
Yubico has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.
A Yubikey will essentially last forever, and if you stay clear of the insanity that is Passkeys its Webauthn element can support an infinite number of websites. Portability: I have a smartphone, a work laptop, a home laptop, and a home desktop. My Yubikey has USB and NFC, so it can trivially be used with all of them.
Do I need to keep my yubikey plugged in all the time? A. No, you only need to insert your yubikey when you are prompted to do so during login. Leaving it plugged in could result in the yubikey being lost or damaged.
Yubico is Now Trading as YUBICO on Nasdaq in Stockholm. SANTA CLARA, CA and STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — September 20, 2023 — Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, announced today that it is now publicly traded under the ticker symbol YUBICO on Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Stockholm.
Protecting employees and customers with strong 2FA
Today, Google not only protects employees with the YubiKey but has also integrated support for the YubiKey and FIDO U2F security keys into the available security protections for all Google users.
Yubico is a Swedish company that owns subsidiaries in the USA, UK and Germany. We strongly believe there are security and privacy benefits for our customers by manufacturing and programming our products in Sweden and the USA.
Please allow an additional 7-10 days before contacting Yubico (or your reseller) to inquire about a shipment. Note that orders may be delayed during holidays and promotional periods. We ship our products from the United States and the European Union.
While YubiKey is designed to be secure, it is not immune to attacks. There have been instances where YubiKeys have been hacked or compromised. Common attack vectors on hardware keys include physical attacks, side-channel attacks, and firmware vulnerabilities.
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