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Non-profit support provider for unpaid family and friend carers in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Carers ACT has deployed YubiKeys to its support workers to protect vulnerable Australians’ health information.

GUEST OPINION: With the use of phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) like passkeys growing more every day, it’s exciting to see the widely popular service, Microsoft 365, announce availability recently for passkeys on YubiKeys with mobile devices. This new Microsoft preview not only opens up support on iOS and iPadOS for Microsoft 365, but for a whole range of other Microsoft 1st party apps and also any other applications protected with Entra ID.

COMPANY NEWS: With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching, Yubico, the leading provider of passwordless hardware authentication security keys, has announced that during Cyber Week, which runs from 20-27 November, YubiKeys will be available for “buy one key, get 50% off your second key.”

COMPANY NEWS: In an effort to protect the infrastructure and improve cybersecurity in the US, the Executive Order 14028 and the Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 took a strong stance to require phishing-resistant authentication for all federal agencies. The M-22-09 memo also specifies two standards-based authentication protocols that will satisfy the phishing-resistant requirements, Fido2/WebAuthn and PIV smart cards.

COMPANY NEWS: Amazon recently announced improved support for using FIDO2 security keys as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) device to log on to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) console. FIDO2 security keys are a phishing-resistant standards-based passwordless authentication method and are typically USB-like devices, but they can also use Bluetooth or near-field communication (NFC).

COMPANY NEWS:  Today, Microsoft announced the release of three new solutions that enable organisations to deploy Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to fight phishing attacks in Azure, Office 365, and remote desktop environments. These solutions will be essential to mitigate phishing attacks and will play a key role in supporting organisations looking to comply with the Executive Order. These solutions include:

GUEST INTERVIEW: With passwords and traditional two-factor authentication no longer as secure as it once was, Yubico's evolving YubiKeys have been the next-gen answer, with the new YubiKey Bio now another step above in delivering an ever more secure environment, Geoff Schomburgk joined us again at iTWireTV to explain this and plenty more.

GUEST INTERVIEW: With passwords and traditional two-factor authentication no longer as secure as it once was, Yubico's evolving YubiKeys have been the next-gen answer, with the new YubiKey Bio now another step above in delivering an ever more secure environment, Geoff Schomburgk joined us again at iTWireTV to explain this and plenty more.