Okta + Yubico

Creating phishing-resistant users who can go passwordless effortlessly with fast, out-of-the-box FIDO activation

Move past phishing-resistant authentication to phishing-resistant users with authentication that moves seamlessly with the user across devices, services and business scenarios. Seamlessly register YubiKeys to end users and remove hijacking of their account lifecycle, from onboarding, to authentication to account recovery. Introducing Yubico FIDO Pre-reg with Okta - the seamless way to create phishing-resistant users and accelerate your business to passwordless.

Now, your users can get started with phishing-resistant MFA in just minutes and stop account takeovers in their tracks. Yubico FIDO Pre-reg eliminates the need for admins to manually register keys for users, saving on time and costs. Users enjoy secure access to their online accounts in two easy steps by simply entering a PIN and successfully authenticating to their online accounts, all without ever needing a password! Yubico FIDO Pre-reg is available through YubiKey as a Service which delivers greater business agility with YubiKeys as a Service, lowering cost to entry.

Following the initial Limited Early Access period in October 2023, we are excited to broaden the program further into an Early Access (EA) period for customers. All NFC-enabled YubiKeys available via YubiKey as a Service are eligible during the Early Access phase of the program. General Availability for Yubico FIDO Pre-reg is planned for late 2024, where all YubiKeys will be available. If you are interested in joining our EA program and following the Yubico Pre-reg journey, please share your interest by submitting contact details via the Yubico FIDO Pre-reg interest form.

Administrators no longer need to register YubiKeys on behalf of their users or require users to self-enroll. This saves time and costs by eliminating the need to manually register security keys for each employee, one by one.

Users receive YubiKeys that are pre-registered and no longer need to self-enroll, leaving them free to enjoy secure, passwordless access to their online accounts in minutes.

Yubico FIDO Pre-reg is available through the YubiKey as a Service program which delivers greater business flexibility and agility with a YubiKeys as a Service model, which lowers the cost to entry, and dramatically raises the bar for security.

Okta Adaptive MFA customers can leverage multiple authentication protocols available on the YubiKey to address varying use cases, protecting all users, from entry-level to executive, with robust and reliable authentication they can trust.

Okta Adaptive MFA and the YubiKey are both supported by a wide range of integrations across leading vendors in infrastructure and security, enabling the joint solution to work across devices and platforms.

Okta's Adaptive MFA adapts to specific risk levels of each authentication attempt; giving an organization continuous protection. Combining this with YubiKeys, which provide reliable hardware-backed security that is battery free and always on and accessible, organizations can rest assured that they have strong phishing-resistant requirements in place.

Okta Desktop MFA for macOS supports all FIDO2 YubiKey models (i.e., YubiKey 5 Series and Security Key Series by Yubico) for authenticating into Apple computers with online access, making the passwordless experience part of the secure access flow.