Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC Review & Tutorial: How to Setup a YubiKey

in this video I'm going to show you how you can add an extra level security to your online accounts including Gmail blockchain and LastPass with Yubikey you I'm Louise Elizabeth and welcome to every bit helps I really hope you enjoyed this video today and if you do then please give me a like hit the subscribe button and share if you feel that others may benefit also please do head over to my website every bit helps to a code at UK where related blog post is also available with over 18 million login credentials being compromised every single day securing your online accounts is essential so if you're looking for an extra level of security to protect your personal accounts and data you Becky is a great way of securing the weak points in your security this small yet powerful hardware device is like a physical key the instead of unlocking a door unlocks your online life verifying with human interaction that it's you who's actually trying to access your accounts and I'll show you how you can accept your Yubikey with your Gmail account watching calm wallet and LastPass password manager shortly Yubikey was created by yubico a company based in sweden and founded in 2007 with a mission to make secure login easy and available for everyone the company's core invention the Yubikey is a small battery for USB and NFC security key securing access to a number of IT systems and online services and yuba keys our key size devices that you can plug into your computer's USB slot mobile device port or scan using NFC or near field communications used for sharing data to provide an additional layer of security with accessing your online accounts yubico have a number of different types of Ubik heads some are fit certifies come with dual connectors and lightning ports and they also have a bio version coming soon which will integrate fingerprint technology to the Yubikey i'll be showing you today is the Yubikey 5 NFC which can be purchased individually as a pack of 210 or 50 which could be ideal for teams the key itself has durable waterproof and crush resistant and comes with a keyhole ring said that you don't lose them now obviously losing them is one of the biggest drawbacks of these type of devices so it's recommended that you have more than one these and keep the other ones securely somewhere why should you receive your Yubikey you can go ahead and register them with well-known services that support you to F and Fido to like Google Mail Facebook Instagram and reddit and cloud storage such as Dropbox plus you can either set up your Yubikey with password managers such as the likes of - name and LastPass - and if you need assistance you can find quick guides here for all the different services - so let's get started with Gmail so this is my demo account but at the moment when I log in I just enter in my username or email address and my password and if someone gets hold of this password they will then have the Gateway to all of my personal information such as my confidential emails and calendar invites to with Google you can set up text alerts with one-time codes but hackers or bad guys can also intercept these and gain access and a great way to secure your account is by holding the key to your account literally on you so that you have to be present to access that account so let's go ahead and set up our Yubikey five NFC with Gmail so if you click onto your profile in the top right hand corner of the screen and go to manage your Google account and if you go across the security and down to two-step verification we can then go ahead and get started you'll then be prompted to enter in your password and then click on it next and it's then asking me how I'd like to receive my codes do I want to use text message or phone call and as I said there can be some security flaws around this so what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose another option and I'm going to be using a security key a small physical device used for signing in and it's then asked me to make sure that my key is with me but not connected in my device click on to next a next up is asking me to insert my security key into my computer's USB port or connect it with a USB cable once it's connected I need to tap the button or gold disc if your key has one which mine obviously does so I'm just going to go and do that now you and then it may come up with a security message so I'm going to allow and as you can see my security key is now registered and is asking me to put in a security key name and I'm gonna name this yubico one fer then click onto done and as you can see here that security key has now been set up and you can also set up additional backup steps so that you can sign in even if your other options are available now you're probably going to want to use this in conjunction with Google backup codes too just in case you lose your device and don't have a spare key and you can set that up from here by clicking onto set up and you'll then be provided with ten different types of codes that you can use to sign back into your account and you may want to print these off and keep them somewhere safe now what would do is log out of this account and we'll relook in now that we have all Yubikey connected so if I go to login enter in my password and click on to next I'll be then asked to insert my security key and touch it which I'm going to do now and as you can see there's all gone through fine and I'm all set to log into my account so I can click onto next so that was pretty simple with your gmail account then next I'll show you how you can integrate with your blockchain calm wallet so if you're holding Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies in a blockchain calm wallet you'll want to ensure that that is kept secure and you can use a Yubikey with blockchain and I've got a full beginner's guide to blockchain which I'll pop in the summary below however I'll just quickly show you how you can use this with Yubikey so once you're logged into your blockchain comm wallet if you head over to Security Center in the top right here and enable 2-step verification you can see that you can use Authenticator apps UB keys or SMS codes and 2-step verification helps to prevent unauthorized access to your wallet for a requiring on one-time password for every login attempt so we're going to enable this to further secure our wallet so if we click on to yubi key so as you can see here is asking me to insert the Yubikey into your computer's USB port and then I need to pair my yubikey the way that I do that is if I click into the box I press the yellow button and you'll see a string of dots have then appeared on-screen and that my yubikey has now verified so if I log out of my account and then if I go back to login it's now asking me for my yubikey so to do that I need to plug in my yubikey click onto the Yubikey box here I press the yellow button and now I'm securely logged in to my blockchain calm wallet then finally let's take a look at combining with LastPass for those of you not aware LastPass is a great password manager making passwords more secure and storing them in our vaults and you don't have to remember them by connecting you Becky you can make LastPass even more secure making access and authentication seamless and again I've got a full tutorial for those that are interested in LastPass but let's go ahead and assume you have an account you'd like to secure so if we go across to our count settings at the bottom of the screen here on the left and multi-factor options you'll see here that you'll have a whole host of different multi-factor authentication options however if you have a premium account you can actually integrate with yubico so I'm gonna click on to the little pencil icon on the right here and I can enable and as you can see you can enter up to five different keys in here and this is in case you're using a family subscription and each person has their own key for example so if I just click onto the I here it states to associate a Yubikey with your account give focus to the input box and press your Yubikey to disassociate a new bikini your account clear the entire value of the input box so what I want to do now is associate this Yubikey so if I click into the text field here and then if I press on to the yellow button on my yubikey you'll see a value has now been placed into that input one section once you're ready you can go ahead and you can update you'll then be asked to re-enter your LastPass master password and then click on to continue and as it states here once you baqi authentication is enabled login to your browsers to double encrypt all locally cache data then click on to ok and I'm gonna go ahead and login and as you can see it's now asking me to insert my yubikey in the USB port with the USB contact facing upward I've gotta wait until my yubikey touch button shines with a steady light then I need to hold my finger tip on the touch button for one second so I've pasted that in I'm gonna press down and that's automatically then filled in for me and I've now entered my LastPass account so that's just secured that even more so as you can see by using Yubikey it's a nice and simple way of securing your online accounts and I hope that you enjoyed this video today and if you did then please give me a like hit the subscribe button and share if you feel that others may benefit also please do head over to my website and every bit helps taco de que for more tips reviews and tutorials thanks and I'll see you soon you

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Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Tue May 19 2020