Case Study: University of York achieves frictionless researcher data protection and reduced phishing risk with Duo Security

University of York - Customer Case Study

University of York, a research-intensive institution with more than 30 academic departments and roughly 16,000 students, needed a frictionless authentication solution that would protect researchers’ sensitive and confidential data and reduce successful phishing attacks without impeding open research access. Their legacy authentication system and user hesitation around two-factor methods made a seamless, low-barrier rollout essential.

They chose Duo’s cloud-based two-factor authentication after trialing hardware tokens, first protecting administrators and technical staff and then expanding campus-wide. Duo delivered a low-overhead, easy-to-use deployment that strengthened the network perimeter against credential compromise, enabled role-based VPN access, drove quick user adoption, and improved security at minimal cost and operational effort.

University of York

Richard Fuller

Linux and Information Security Team Leader