Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, is accelerating the adoption of secure passkeys through new strategic partnerships with identity verification providers HYPR and Nametag. These collaborations are a key part of Yubico's "Bring Your Own IDV" strategy, designed to integrate robust identity verification directly into the secure provisioning and lifecycle management of YubiKeys via its YubiKey as a Service platform. The initiative aims to bolster defenses against the rising threat of AI-driven fraud and impersonation during employee onboarding.
Yubico has partnered with identity verification (IDV) companies HYPR and Nametag.
The collaboration integrates IDV into the YubiKey as a Service enrollment process.
The goal is to verify an employee's identity before a YubiKey is issued or activated.
This addresses the threat of AI-driven fraud and deepfakes used in hiring and onboarding.
It strengthens Zero Trust security by ensuring hardware keys are bound to verified users.
Benefits include fraud prevention, streamlined onboarding, and reduced IT burden.
The partnerships address a critical vulnerability in modern cybersecurity: the ability for malicious actors to use stolen identities or AI-generated deepfakes to pass hiring checks and gain legitimate access to corporate networks. By integrating identity verification at the point of YubiKey provisioning, organizations can now confirm that the person receiving the hardware security key is indeed the verified employee, contractor, or partner. This creates a foundational layer of trust before authentication credentials are ever activated.
Albert Biketi, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Yubico, explained the strategic importance, stating, “Yubico’s promise has always been trust made tangible... By integrating IDV capabilities, we will extend this trust across the entire user lifecycle, from identity creation to login. This strengthens Yubico's commitment to helping organizations, governments, and individuals verify identities amidst increasing deepfakes, fraud, and AI deception.”
The integrated solution allows customers to choose between HYPR's assurance framework or Nametag's Deepfake Defense™ engine to remotely verify identities. This process ensures that a person's verified identity is cryptographically anchored to their phishing-resistant YubiKey from their first day of employment. The approach not only prevents fraud but also streamlines the onboarding experience for new hires and reduces the administrative burden on IT teams by enabling secure, self-service credential enrollment.
Bojan Simic, CEO of HYPR, highlighted the combined strength, noting, "By integrating HYPR's Zero Trust-enabling assurance framework directly into the YubiKey as a Service enrollment process, we guarantee that the industry's strongest security key is bound to a verified user and a trusted device." This evolution in secure identity management positions Yubico at the center of a new, unified security approach where verification, authentication, and attestation work seamlessly together to create a more resilient defense against modern threats.
Yubico is a modern cybersecurity company on a mission to make the internet safer for everyone. As the inventor of the YubiKey, we set the gold standard for modern phishing-resistant, hardware-backed authentication, stopping account takeovers and making secure login simple.
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