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Adopt phishing-resistant authentication
Your defense against account takeovers. Strong two-factor, multi-factor and passwordless authentication to protect your Microsoft ecosystem.
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Stop phishing with a scalable user friendly
authentication solution
Identity is a fundamental building block of a Zero Trust strategy. With the YubiKey, adopt strong phishing-resistant multi-factor passwordless authentication and experience a smooth user experience when accessing Microsoft apps and services. Enterprises, government agencies, and consumers can prevent account takeovers and go passwordless with Microsoft Azure AD and the YubiKey.
Enterprise solutions
YubiKeys provide a bridge from legacy to modern authentication options.
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Compliance & privileged users
YubiKeys address strong authentication and compliance requirements.
Consumer solutions
Microsoft users strengthen authentication with YubiKeys—from simple to complex scenarios.
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Executive Order compliance
Government agencies can deploy federally validated, hardware-backed MFA across multiple applications and operating systems.
Secure access to your apps and infrastructure
Whether your identity directory is on premises or in the cloud, accessing personal or business accounts with Microsoft, YubiKeys provide strong authentication for securing your identity access management infrastructure. YubiKeys provide a bridge from legacy to modern authentication options. The same YubiKey used for on-premises smart card deployments can be used with the cloud native Azure AD support for smart cards. Additionally, the YubiKey can be registered as a FIDO2 credential to access Azure AD protected workstations and applications.
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Not all authentication is created equal: phishing-resistant MFA
is key to your Zero Trust strategy
Whether your identity directory is on premises or in the cloud, accessing personal or business accounts with Microsoft, YubiKeys provide strong authentication for securing the identity access management infrastructure. YubiKeys provide a bridge from legacy to modern authentication options. The same YubiKey used for on-premises smart card deployments can be used to authenticate access to apps in the cloud through FIDO2. The versatile, multi-protocol YubiKey 5 series is your solution.
Phishing-resistant solutions with
Azure AD and YubiKeys
Organizations that deploy Azure AD can fight phishing attacks in Azure, Office 365, and remote desktop environments with these solutions. They are essential to mitigate phishing attacks and play a key role in supporting organizations looking to comply with the Executive Order.
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Certificate-based authentication (CBA)
CBA enables organizations with existing smart card & public-key-infrastructure (PKI) deployments to authenticate to Azure AD without a federated server. Organizations can use the same YubiKey as a smart card with Azure AD enabling them to migrate away from on-premises authentication solutions like ADFS as part of their Zero Trust and cloud strategies.
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Conditional Access authentication strengths: enforced FIDO or CBA policies
Organizations can fight phishing attacks by implementing specific user authentication policies which enables them to restrict authentication to their requirements. YubiKeys can be leveraged for phishing-resistant MFA for FIDO-based passwordless (FIDO2/WebAuthn) or CBA. By configuring Azure AD to require YubiKeys, organizations are eliminating an entire attack vector for their most privileged users and safeguarding their most critical assets.
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Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) supports FIDO and certificates
AVD enables users to connect to a personal workstation in the cloud. Users with a virtual desktop have the same security and work experience no matter where they are. FIDO-based passwordless authentication enables users to authenticate with their YubiKey and Azure AD passwordless credentials when the user signs into AVD or when they sign into an application inside their virtual desktop. The FIDO-based passwordless authentication solution augments the support for YubiKeys and certificate authentication currently supported in AVD.
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Azure AD CBA for Android and iOS mobile devices
CBA on mobile provides users with the same convenient smart card authentication method on mobile as on desktops. YubiKey is currently the only external device that supports CBA on Android and iOS. Plus, it is the only FIPS certified phishing-resistant solution available for Azure AD on mobile. CBA is a staple of governments and high security environments for decades. With Executive Order 14028, the adoption of CBA and other phishing-resistant MFA are mandated.
Microsoft and YubiKey work seamlessly together
“The concept of passwordless seems so counterintuitive. After all, we are so used to passwords! But Yubico makes it effortless for the user, and Microsoft makes it easy to adopt. Really, it is a no-brainer—a single solution to reduce the risk of phishing by 100%.”
Tomasz Onyszko
CTO at Predica Group
Securing organizations around the world
Organizations that deploy Azure AD can fight phishing attacks in Azure, Office 365, and remote desktop environments with these solutions. They are essential to mitigate phishing attacks and play a key role in supporting organizations looking to comply with the Executive Order.
Hyatt Hotels is going passwordless
“Our goal at Hyatt is to have every application in our stack fall under Azure single sign on. So once you’re using the YubiKey for app one, you’ll be using it for app two and three and four…”
“The initial rollout has been quite seamless and we have been able to quickly onboard our users. With a strong infrastructure in place and easy access to documentation and support, we are confident that we have taken back security and control”
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