It will be possible to enhance iPhone security with hardware-based physical authentication dongles.
Enterprise security professionals will be pleased to learn that it will soon be possible to enhance the already considerable device security of Apple’s iPhones with hardware-based physical authentication dongles using the Lightning port.
Announced at CES 2019, the key fits on a keyring and comes from the authorization experts at Yubico. The hardware connects to iOS systems using the Lightning connection and is also equipped with USB-C for Macs. This is quite a big deal.
Enterprise users can use this system to impose additional hardware security protections to regulate use of proprietary apps – that’s even more useful when boosted by the conventional biometric, password and MDM device protection that already exists on these devices.
It will enable organizations to deploy near rock-solid protection against unauthorized use of services, confidential data or even physical access to spaces.
It will also make Apple’s devices (iPhones, iPads) even more compelling systems for highly secure tasks that lack of hardware authentication has prevented them being used for in the past.
The introduction reflects Apple’s focus on providing a secure infrastructure for enterprise IT .
