AuthX vs. Yubico YubiKeys

I think whenever you're either a small team that works together in person or you're a company that has the resources to give each employee a Yubico YubiKeys, that's a great use case. I've found it's maybe not as great if you're working with freelancers that are remote because you don't know necessarily the lifespan of the freelancer. You may work with them for three months and then maybe you start working with a different freelancer. So to mail out Yubico YubiKeys for that very part-time freelance position is not necessarily the easiest. So in those cases, I've resorted to just syncing the two-factor codes and giving them a log into a password manager because that's much easier to onboard. So yeah, I guess that would be maybe one of the downsides is onboarding users, getting them started. But if you have a small team in person or you've got the resources, and you've got an IT department, then onboarding is not as much of an issue.

Incentivized

• Provides additional factors for authenticating against critical systems.
• Significantly reduces the chance of a successful phishing attempt.
• Can function as your primary credential for passwordless authentication.
• Extremely durable - I've had the same Yubikeys in use for years.
• Cross-platform - can be used on all mainstream operating systems and mobile devices.

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• I'd feel better if the key were a little more solidly built - it feels a little flimsy
• The design could also use a cap for the connection - I'm nervous having it on my key chain and users have mentioned the same concerns.
• There seems to be some cracks forming in the support for security keys which is starting to mitigate the usefulness across an entire ecosystem.

Incentivized

I give slightly better than average rating because of the complexity in using a Yubikey. It is not as easy as native push notifications for 2FA products, however, it provides much better strength. Rating this higher or lower would be a disservice to people reading this review. If you are in the market for a hardware 2FA tool, Yubikey will be a great asset in your toolbox.

Incentivized

simple to use and keep on hand to deploy/use

Incentivized

its instantaneous!

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They offer ways to store passwords or MFA support, but most need a root password. In addition, LastPass and 1Password do not have much support for MFA. This results in a lack of MFA support. For Okta, although it offers MFA and SSO, the OTP can be very annoying to have as I do not always know where my phone is placed.

Incentivized

deployment is simple and the complex hardware is made simple.

Incentivized

• Defiantly a reduction in password resets for some higher level users that we had issues with in the past
• Feeling secure in the knowledge that our data is secure with using Yubico YubiKeys
• Easy to integrate and use with our windows products

Incentivized