Allows for use of security key PIN for scenarios where biometrics cannot be used.

Offers portability which allows users to switch devices, log into shared workstations, and also support mobile-restricted environments.

Available as both USB-A and USB-C in Yubico’s hallmark, slim and durable keychain design.

Works across desktop platforms supporting WebAuthn such as Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, and Linux and across browsers such as Edge and Chrome as well as other Chromium based browsers.

Supports FIDO2/WebAuthn and FIDO U2F, based on the Yubico invention of enabling one single authenticator to work across any number of applications, with highest level of security, and without sharing any information between services.

Meets the most stringent hardware security key requirements with fingerprint templates stored in a separate secure element on the YubiKey Bio.

(Head to its Security section, then the Advanced Security Options subsection.) Once I enrolled my fingerprint, logging in involved entering my username, inserting the key, then touching the YubiKey bio's fingerprint sensor.Yubico shares features and benefits of the YubiKey Bio Series below.

I tried the YubiKey Bio with my passwordless Microsoft account and found it easy to set up through the process for adding a hardware security key offered on the Microsoft account page. It also uses hardware security keys to protect employee accounts. And on Tuesday, it announced that this year it will switch 150 million people to two-factor authentication (2FA), which it calls two-step verification (2SV).

On Friday, it announced it's given out 100,000 of its own Titan hardware security keys to election officials and female politicians, activists, journalists and executives through its Advanced Protection Program. Google, an enormous player with billions of people using services like Gmail, YouTube and Google Workspace, is working hard to overcome the weaknesses of passwords alone.

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