Yubico (NASDAQ STOCKHOLM: YUBICO), the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, today announced the expanded availability of YubiKey as a Service to all countries in the European Union (EU). This allows organisations to be more agile and flexible in their adoption of phishing-resistant YubiKeys, and builds upon the company's existing reach in markets such as the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Australia, India and the UK.
Additionally, the company announced the expanded availability of YubiEnterprise Delivery across 117 new locations around the world. Now totalling 199 locations (175 countries and 24 territories), this more than doubles existing delivery coverage of YubiKeys to both office and remote users in a fast and turnkey way.
“Enterprises today are facing evolving cyber threats like Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven phishing attacks,” said Jeff Wallace, senior vice president of product at Yubico. “By expanding our global reach of YubiKey as a Service and YubiEnterprise Delivery to 175 countries, we’re accelerating our ability to deliver and deploy device-bound passkey solutions that address the biggest threat facing businesses today from stolen login credentials. This expansion enables us to meet growing demand and accelerates adoption, enabling faster, more affordable delivery of pre-configured YubiKeys to markets like the EU and APJ, where regulatory pressures for phishing-resistant authentication are intensifying.”
Seamless user onboarding of YubiKeys with YubiKey as a Service
Rolling out phishing-resistant, passwordless security just got easier for all EU countries through the expansion of YubiKey as a Service. This innovative service provides enterprises with flexibility and simplifies the acquisition and fast roll out of phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) with impactful cost savings. The Yubico Enrollment Suite, available exclusively through this service, now enables enterprises in these markets to accelerate passwordless adoption and seamless user onboarding with pre-configured keys to their users. This includes Yubico FIDO Pre-reg for factory-programmed, pre-registered keys as well as YubiEnroll client for in-person onboarding via Okta and Microsoft Entra ID, with more identity providers (IdPs) to follow.
Through these offerings, Yubico is aligning security with operational efficiency, helping organisations future-proof their workforce against evolving phishing threats.
Turnkey global delivery: YubiEnterprise Delivery
Getting hardware security keys into users’ hands, anywhere, is critical and needs to be fast and easy. As part of YubiKey as a Service, YubiEnterprise Delivery helps organisations achieve this by providing IT teams with powerful capabilities to easily manage the delivery of hardware security keys to users, while accelerating the adoption of strong authentication.
Additionally, organisations gain critical visibility into available inventory and consumption patterns of YubiKeys to ensure identification of any gaps in protection against phishing attacks. YubiEnterprise Delivery will continue to make it easy and flexible for enterprises to adopt phishing-resistant and passwordless MFA that stops account takeovers and credential phishing threats.