WISeKey Recommends Replacement of Usernames And Passwords With Two-Factor Authentication to Mitigate Current Cybersecurity Risks
23 March 2022 - 12:00AM
WISeKey
Recommends
Replacement of
Usernames
And Passwords With
Two-Factor Authentication to
Mitigate Current
Cybersecurity Risks
WISeKey has enabled free access to its
WISeID.COM cyber security platform of services
incusing the offering of a
two-factor authentication
(2FA),
aiming to reduce the attack-surface on digital assets and personal
information, and securely dematerialize electronic
transactions.
GENEVA – March 22,
2022: WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX:
WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading global cybersecurity company, today
announced the offering of a two-factor authentication (2FA),
allowing subscribers to replace their username and password login
process with 2FA as a stronger method of protecting access to PCs
and laptops and introducing stronger authentication before allowing
access to emails and critical applications.
WISeID, based on the WISeKey/OISTE Root of Trust, integrates
innovative technologies to offer any individual or business entity,
the ability to create an account, accessing several basic services,
free of charge, which then can be upgraded to access additional
multiple cybersecurity services. The WISeID web services and mobile
applications, already available for download and use, provide users
with a digital identity that can be used to secure email
communication, digitally sign documents with legal validity and is
complemented with features such as dual factor authentication and
single sign-on.To enforce 2FA, subscribers must have a digital
certificate issued by WISeID.COM as an accredited Certification
Authority (CA).
Corporate customers not willing to implement their own PKI
platform can benefit from WISeKey’s trusted “PKI As a Service”
(Managed PKI) offering.
This service is built with WISeKey’s URA and enables:
- Multiple Certificate Templates
- Multi-Tenant access, isolating the data of each customer
- Possibility to deploy dedicated CAs for the customer, or use
WISeKey’s Trusted CA
- Possibility to deploy a fully dedicated and isolated
infrastructure, not sharing any resource with other customers
- Doesn’t require the installation of any local infrastructure,
and it’s delivered from WISeKey’s owned secure datacenter in
Switzerland, ensuring the privacy of data according to the highest
standards.
The WISeID security features are offered as a freemium service,
where users can benefit from a free trial service, fully enabled to
cover urgent needs and then, given the choice to purchase digital
certificates or permanent storage with secure backup and other
advantages, through an annual subscription. The service will also
be offered to selected companies, in a B2B model. WISeID is
accessible as a web service via the WISeId.com trust services
portal and enterprise standard APIs that allow the integration with
business applications. For more information
visit https://wiseid.com.
As recommended by several governments it is essential the
strengthening of cybersecurity defenses mandate the use of
multi-factor authentication to make it harder for attackers to get
onto the system.
About WISeKeyWISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss
Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently
deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and
objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the
Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the
pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey
IoT has an install base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually
all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural
sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers,
mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned
to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge
amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence
(AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of
their equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based
cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure authentication
and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for
the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The
WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity
of online transactions among objects and between objects and
people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.
Press and investor contacts:WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594
3000info@wisekey.comWISeKey Investor Relations
(US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity Group Inc.Tel: +1 212
836-9611lcati@equityny.com
Disclaimer:This communication expressly or
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WISeKey International Holding Ltd and its business. Such statements
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factors, which could cause the actual results, financial condition,
performance, or achievements of WISeKey International Holding Ltd
to be materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. WISeKey International Holding Ltd is providing this
communication as of this date and does not undertake to update any
forward-looking statements contained herein as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.This press release does not
constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy,
any securities, and it does not constitute an offering prospectus
within the meaning of article 652a or article 1156 of the Swiss
Code of Obligations or a listing prospectus within the meaning of
the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange. Investors must rely on
their own evaluation of WISeKey and its securities, including the
merits and risks involved. Nothing contained herein is, or shall be
relied on as, a promise or representation as to the future
performance of WISeKey.
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