The world seems to have gone topsy-turvy in the past 30 days. FIDO2 supports not only today’s two-factor authentication but also paves the way for eliminating weak password authentication, with strong single factor hardware-based authentication. Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC and YubiKey 5Ci REVIEW MacSources. The YubiKey 5 Series helps organizations accelerate to a passwordless future by providing support for the FIDO2 protocol. The YubiKey 5C NFC packs all the advanced features of the YubiKey line into an affordable package that will work with all your desktop and mobile devices. Users have the broadest options for strong authentication including not only two-factor authentication, but also support for single factor passwordless login and multi-factor authentication in conjunction with user touch and PIN.

It offers multi-protocol support including FIDO2, Yubico OTP, OATH HOTP, U2F, PIV, and Open PGP. YubiKey is a key-sized device that you can plug into your computers USB slot, mobile devices USB-C or Lightning port, or scan using an NFC-enabled mobile. The YubiKey offers superior security by combining hardware-based authentication and public key cryptography to effectively defend against phishing attacks and eliminate account takeovers.

The YubiKey 5 Series is a hardware based authentication solution that provides superior defense against phishing, eliminates account takeovers, and enables compliance requirements for strong authentication.

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