How to secure your Linux environment with Nitrokey USB smart card

With the mounting online security risks, simple one-step security no longer suffices, and people resort to multiple layers of security to thwart increasingly sophisticated attacks on their digital assets and online privacy. An advanced form of security defense often employed in financial sectors and other corporate environments is hardware-based protection, where a tamper-proof physical security key (also known as “security token” or “hardware token”) acts as a protection layer for secret software keys or login credentials.