More and more businesses, enterprises, companies and commercial endeavors shift their cyber security focus from cloud-based protection towards a physical one. While most of the public individually still hold on the cloud, physical access keys are facilitating their status as the go to solution for businesses. The iShield key solution is not your standard mundane security key. It offers so much more. The key for your commercial journey starts here.
“One key to rule them all. One key to protect them. One key to bring them all, and in the cyber guard them”. Truly, this very altered, very niched, rendering of a fantasy cult classic may not adhere to the norm. However, a security solution such as the exquisite iShield key family, the brainchild of memory and storage encryption visioner Swissbit, was deemed until recently as a work of fiction. Now, these ideas are reality. The iShield key family offers multiple versions for multiple purposes. Naturally, we would elaborate on the two fundamental options. These guardians of the cyber-verse bring businesses the revelation of the FIDO2, and much much more. Keep in mind, the suitability of your business for passkeys depends heavily on your enterprise suage of Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) routines and processes, a detailed assessment of security needs and user workflows. Swissbit stressed that before introduction of such technology, companies should thoroughly review and update their MFA policies, which might have been designed with legacy hardware tokens in mind. Now, lets begin.
The next big step in identity protection in the Cyber age, especially for reducing the risk of phishing attacks, passkeys in general, and the iShield key family in particular, are a well thought of shift in cyber protection mindset. While the standard ishield key offer only FIDO2 standardized protocols, the iShield key Pro solution (the upgraded version) offers far reaching revolutionary identity protection protocols and a splendid combination of interwoven hardware-software encryption. Now, even the Pro version has its own upgrade. The most technologically advanced security key by far, the new iShield key Pro MIFARE solution offers the same over the top protection as the iShield key Pro with Near Field communication (NFC) MIFARE action. Thus, this solution supports passkeys applications, One Time Password (OTP) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) as well as contactless physical access MIFARE operability. Guarantying seamless enhanced protection for company infrastructure, parking garages, charging stations of various kinds and even payment systems.
Hash-based One Time Password (HOTP), Hash-based One Time Password (TOTP), Smartcard as Personal Identity Verification (PIV) compatible and even OpenSC-compatible are just a partial list of far reaching capabilities of the iShield key Pro. Notable capabilities, especially as a new EU regulation, the Digital Operational Resilience Act, is coming to play. Aimed to strengthen the IT security of European financial organisations- the act raises the European cyber security bar once again. With new standards, may come new capabilities.