Yubico (NASDAQ STOCKHOLM: YUBICO), the leading provider of security keys for hardware-based authentication, today announced the expanded availability by YubiKey as a service to all countries in the European Union (EU). This enables organizations to be more agile and flexible in their deployment of YubiKeys that stop phishing, while building on the company's established presence in markets such as the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Australia, India and the United Kingdom.

In addition, the company announced that it has expanded the availability of YubiEnterprise Delivery to 117 new locations around the world. With a total of 199 locations (175 countries and 24 territories), Yubico’s global delivery coverage is more than doubled, enabling fast, seamless and turnkey deployment of YubiKeys to both office and remote users.

Businesses today face new cyber threats such as phishing attacks driven by artificial intelligence (AI),” said Jeff Wallace, senior vice president of product at Yubico. By expanding our global reach for YubiKey as a Service and YubiEnterprise Delivery to 175 countries, we are accelerating our ability to deliver and distribute device-bound passkey solutions that address the biggest threat to businesses today from stolen credentials. This expansion allows us to meet growing demand and accelerate the adoption of fast and cost-effective delivery of pre-configured YubiKeys to markets like the EU and APJ, where regulatory requirements for phishing-resistant authentication are increasing.”

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Seamless onboarding of YubiKey users with YubiKey as a Service

The rollout of phishing-resistant, password-less security has just become easier for all EU countries with the expanded availability of YubiKey as a service. The service gives businesses increased flexibility and makes it easier to procure and quickly implement phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), resulting in significant cost savings. Yubico Enrollment Suite, which is exclusively available through this service, now enables businesses in these markets to accelerate the adoption of password-free and seamless onboarding with pre-configured keys for their users. This includes Yubico FIDO Pre-Reg for factory-programmed, pre-registered keys as well as the YubiEnroll client for personalized onboarding via Okta and Microsoftt Entra ID – with more identity providers (IdPs) to follow.

With these solutions, Yubico combines high security with operational efficiency – and helps organizations future-proof their workforce against new phishing threats.

Turnkey global delivery: YubiEnterprise delivery

Getting hardware-based security keys out to users quickly and easily is crucial, regardless of where the person is. As part of YubiKey as a Service helps YubiEnterprise Delivery organizations achieve this by providing IT teams with powerful capabilities to easily manage the delivery of security keys to users, while accelerating the adoption of strong authentication.

In addition, you may organizations valuable insight in available inventory and usage patterns of YubiKeys, enabling the identification of potential vulnerabilities against phishing attacks. YubiEnterprise Delivery continues to offer a smooth and flexible path to deploy phishing-resistant MFA and password-less login – an effective defense against account hijacking and phishing.

For more information about YubiKey as a Service and YubiEnterprise Delivery, visit yubico.com or contact our team today. For customers with a need to ship to additional countries not currently on the list of supported countries, please contact your local Yubico representative here.

Yubico (Nasdaq Stockholm: YUBICO), the developer of YubiKey, offers the highest level of protection against phishing attacks, known as phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), making login simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Since its founding in 2007, the company has been a leader in setting global standards for secure access to computers, mobile devices, servers, browsers and internet accounts. Yubico is a founder and primary contributor to the open authentication standards FIDO2, WebAuthn and FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) and is a pioneer in delivering hardware-based key authentication at scale to customers in over 160 countries.

Yubico's technology enables password-free logins using the most secure form of key technology. YubiKeys work directly with over a thousand consumer and enterprise applications and services, delivering high security with a quick and easy experience.

As part of the mission to do internet safer for all donate Yubico YubiKeys to organizations that help high-risk individuals through the philanthropic initiative Secure it Forward. The company is headquartered in Stockholm and Santa Clara, California. For more information about Yubico, visit us at www.yubico.com.