Will it save the internet? For Ehrensvärd, there is still a lot to do. Now, Yubico has 100 employees and has begun to provide security to Facebook, Dropbox and the UK government. "Google no longer see account take over from advanced phishing as a problem in their company” says Ehrenvard. The hardware from Yubico would mean that Google was no longer the centralised identity provider for the company, making it more practical and secure from sophisticated phishing attacks. The software in Google’s authentication app couldn't handle the most sophisticated of phishing attacks, Ehrenvärd says. That was until, in 2010, Yubico was approached by Google, who asked it for help with phishing. "The only problem was, I had no idea how to put it out there”, Ehrenvärd says, “We had no business plan”. “They were really secure but they were too much hassle” says Ehrensvärd.Īfter refinements, the result was a USB stick: the Yubikey FIDO U2F. However, the cards were too bulky for commercial use. The pair came up with a smart-card that would allow you to sign-in to internet services through a pin-pad, connected to your computer by a contactless reader.
In 2007, Ehrensvärd and her husband Jakob, set about ways to make the internet secure from phishing. “I started to care for the internet like I care for my three kids,” she said after speaking at the WIRED Security conference.
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