Case Study: Information Safety & Capacity (ISC) Project protects journalists' human-rights reporting and Google Apps access with Yubico YubiKey

Information Safety & Capacity Project - Customer Case Study

The ISC Project provides advanced information security and capacity-building support to civil society organizations, human rights activists and independent media whose work makes them frequent targets of hacking. Traditional two-factor methods—time-based tokens, SMS—proved vulnerable to SIM swaps and phishing and were impractical for many users, so ISC needed a stronger, easy-to-deploy 2FA solution.

ISC deployed YubiKey devices (YubiKey 4 and YubiKey NEO) integrated with Google Apps to secure email accounts and admin panels, and moved some email servers outside hostile jurisdictions. The hardware tokens prevented phishing and SIM-swap attacks, were simple for nontechnical users to adopt, and gave journalists and activists stronger protection for sources and reporting along with greater operational security and peace of mind.

Information Safety & Capacity Project