Yubico Is Committed To Driving Positive Change Through Its Secure It Forward Program

Thursday, 24 April 2025, 12:05 pm
Press Release: Yubico

In an era marked by escalating cyber threats, Yubico (NASDAQ STOCKHOLM: YUBICO), the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, is committed to driving positive change by advancing both environmental sustainability and digital security through its Secure It Forward program.

"As sustainability expands to include social, economic, and technological challenges, cybersecurity has emerged as a top global threat, with cybercrime projected to cost $12 trillion this year. Stolen credentials and phishing account for 80% of breaches," said Geoff Schomburgk, Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at Yubico.

Yubico aims to make the world more secure, which is just part of how the company cares for the world around it. From reducing its environmental impact to supporting at-risk communities online, Yubico is committed to doing its part.

Partnering with Solvatten for clean water

While many Yubico employees enjoy the benefit of working from home, from time to time, some may be required to travel for their role. To offset the environmental impact that can come along with travel, since 2022, the company has partnered with Solvatten, a social enterprise committed to providing people living in developing countries with safe and hot water in a portable, environmentally-friendly way. In 2024, Yubico’s donations funded 86 solar water-cleaning units, which provided 3.6 million litres of clean, warm and sustainable water to 430 individuals.

"Stop global boiling: Over two billion people still rely on wood or coal to treat and heat their water, placing a heavy burden on women and girls," said Oliwer Wadström, CEO at Solvatten. “Since 2022, Solvatten and Yubico have joined forces to address this unsustainable practice; thanks to companies and organisations like Yubico, more than 800,000 people are now benefiting from Solvatten globally.”

Secure It Forward: Digital security for vulnerable populations

Yubico's commitment to sustainability extends into digital security, which is why the company created Secure It Forward, a program that provides YubiKeys free of charge to individuals and non-profit organisations who are often under-resourced and at risk of having their digital security compromised.

Since launching in 2021, Yubico has donated more than 65,000 keys to nonprofits and advocacy groups in over 20 countries, including The Anti-Defamation League, Freedom of the Press, The Legal Aid Society, and Civil Rights Defenders.

As part of the Secure It Forward program, Yubico collaborates with Google, Microsoft and Cloudflare. Together, these organisations offer a holistic approach to cybersecurity, combining their tools with email protection from Google and Microsoft, and DDoS mitigation from Cloudflare. This kind of teamwork ensures that even the most vulnerable communities have the digital defences they need.

"As we look to the future, Yubico remains committed to driving positive change by advancing both environmental sustainability and digital security, because a safer, more resilient world starts with protecting what matters most," said Geoff Schomburgk.

Yubico's Secure it Forward program was established to provide security keys to help those most at risk improve their authentication posture. Yubico matches up to 5% of the number of YubiKeys purchased on Yubico.com, donating them to non-profit organisations, election campaigns, journalists and humanitarian workers around the world.

Yubico's Secure it Forward program supports:

• Journalists and humanitarian workers
• Non-profit organisations that protect journalists, freelancers, and writers from doxing and other targeted attacks in an effort to uphold transparent, fair, and ethical reporting.
• Human rights organisations and activist groups focused on ending racism, sexism, LGBTQ+ violence, domestic abuse, and other social justice issues around the world.
• Political networks that fight to preserve democratic integrity by securing campaigns, candidates, and election processes.
• Organisations working to further diversity in tech and security, including STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programs, hackathons, and diversity-driven events.

To learn more about the Secure It Forward program, please get in touch with Yubico here.

About Yubico

Yubico (Nasdaq Stockholm: YUBICO), the inventor of the YubiKey, offers the gold standard for phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), stopping account takeovers in their tracks and making secure login easy and available for everyone. Since the company was founded in 2007, it has been a leader in setting global standards for secure access to computers, mobile devices, servers, browsers, and internet accounts. Yubico is a creator and core contributor to the FIDO2, WebAuthn, and FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) open authentication standards, and is a pioneer in delivering hardware-based passwordless authentication using the highest assurance passkeys to customers in 160+ countries.

Yubico’s solutions enable passwordless logins using the most secure form of passkey technology. YubiKeys work out-of-the-box across hundreds of consumer and enterprise applications and services, delivering strong security with a fast and easy experience.

As part of its mission to make the internet more secure for everyone, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organisations helping at-risk individuals through the philanthropic initiative, Secure it Forward. The company is headquartered in Stockholm and Santa Clara, CA. For more information on Yubico, visit us at www.yubico.com.

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