Case Study: Herning Kommune secures patient data and meets eIDAS requirements with YubiKey

Herning Kommune secures patient data with Yubico and achieves 90% YubiKey adoption

Herning Kommune, a Danish municipality, needed to meet strict EU (eIDAS) and Danish (NSIS) security regulations for accessing sensitive health data. Their challenge was implementing strong, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication for employees, especially those using shared devices in healthcare, where personal phones or eIDs were not a viable option. The vendor Yubico provided the solution with their YubiKey hardware security keys.

Yubico's YubiKey provided a simple, cost-effective FIDO2 authentication method for Herning Kommune's staff. It achieved a 90% adoption rate, secured access to protected health information, and enabled reliable user-based logging for critical medication audits. The solution fully met compliance requirements and gave healthcare workers a fast, reliable way to authenticate on shared devices.

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