This is a guest blog post from Citrix Ready partner Yubico.

Over the past few years, organizations have started to implement flexible work policies, empowering teams to work at home or in the office at their convenience. More recently, with COVID-19 as a forcing function, remote working adoption has accelerated and is likely here to stay.

With this shift in work culture, trends predict that cybersecurity risks, such as phishing, ransomware, and other attacks, will remain high in 2021 and beyond. A report from Cybersecurity Ventures predicts cybercrime will cost $6 trillion annually by 2021. This rings especially true as widely dispersed teams continue to access a range of critical applications, systems, and data from anywhere in the world.

Organizations adapting to this new reality must place strong authentication at the core of their security strategy, which is why Citrix and Yubico work together to offer a secure passwordless solution that enhances security, simplifies the user experience, and enables productivity for teams with flexible work policies.

Citrix and Yubico: Enabling FIDO Authentication Every Step of the Way

To enable better security for remote teams, Citrix extended support for end-to-end modern FIDO2 authentication to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops ā€” the first virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to do so.

This deeper integration makes it possible for Citrix customers to use Yubicoā€™s hardware-backed FIDO2-enabled YubiKeys to authenticate to Citrix Workspace and to business applications running in Citrix Virtual Desktops without a password. Citrix and Yubico are removing yet another hurdle in the journey to passwordless authentication.

The YubiKey 5 series is Citrix Ready validated with Citrix Workspace and latest versions of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops.

Using FIDO2 passwordless login with Yubicoā€™s YubiKey offers several significant benefits for Citrix Workspace customers, including:

  • Improved usability: With passwordless login, users never have to pause to enter passwords or struggle to remember passwords. Access becomes fast and easy with a tap of the YubiKey.
  • Improved security: Removing passwords eliminates security vulnerabilities from stolen passwords, passwords harvested by phishing, and brute force attacks on simple passwords.
  • Improved efficiency: A passwordless world liberates IT administrators from provisioning, managing, and resetting tens and even hundreds of thousands of passwords. Additionally, IT support loads decrease, while security and usability improve.

Special Offer for Citrix Security Summit Attendees

Begin your journey toward strong authentication today and experience the seamless integration between Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and YubiKeys.

Citrix Security Summit attendees can save $20 off any two YubiKey 5 Series keys for a limited time, including the new YubiKey 5C NFC. Go to yubico.com/store, add any two YubiKey 5 Series keys to your cart, and use code YK20E-CSS at checkout. Offer ends 11:59 pm PT, November 29, 2020.

With FIDO2 passwordless login, a single YubiKey can be used to authenticate across all the services a user interacts with, including business applications and services at work, social media networks, and other consumer applications at home with no shared secrets.

When youā€™re ready to take the next step with YubiKeys, talk to a Yubico expert about how strong authentication can enhance your organizationā€™s security strategy.