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Yubico Review
Updated May 20, 2024

Yubico Review

Fredrik Forsell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • YubiKey 5 Series

Overall Satisfaction with Yubico YubiKeys

So we use the YubiKey for securing most of our cloud services, like Office 365, Microsoft 365 mainly, but also other things like password managers. And as far as the services will let us, we try to use mainly the Yubikeys for the physical security tokens and trying to use them for passwordless access to avoid the risks of password theft.
  • The setup is very easy. It's well documented and it's well supported with most services.
  • The backup situation is a hard problem to solve, but it needs to be resolved sooner or later because as it is now, if you have two Yubikeys, you have to enroll them both. When you lose one, you have to remember which one to deactivate and that's a hassle. Fortunately that doesn't happen very often. But having a backup Yubikey that you don't have to enroll everywhere but they can switch over to would be a dream.
  • I'd say it's enhanced our security and it's very easy to get the users to use them. It's very, at least easy to teach them how to use them.
I'd say it's enhanced our security because we are moving towards a two factor and passwordless situation with the limited resources we have in our organization. So it's a good fit.
It's been mostly problem-free compared to other solutions like two-factor authentication apps like Authenticator apps, it's much easier to get them to use it, just plug it in and go ahead. So I'd say it's pretty convenient.
If you compare it to authenticator apps, I'd say it's much more easy to set this up for the individual user. Well, it's Swedish. It's also very well documented. There are a lot of guides on how to use them and I have a lot of faith in the security posture of Yubico and how the keys are developed and general security of the solution.

Do you think Yubico YubiKeys delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Yubico YubiKeys's feature set?

Yes

Did Yubico YubiKeys live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Yubico YubiKeys go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Yubico YubiKeys again?

Yes

I'd say it's very appropriate to secure your cloud access and also for login, it's less appropriate for local login. I'd say logging into Windows computers can be hard to do correctly. And on Mac computers, it's a no go as far as I can tell.