“We’ve long advocated the use of security keys as the strongest, most phishing-resistant authentication factor for high-value users, especially cloud admins, to protect against the potentially damaging consequences of credential theft,” Jennifer Lin, a Google Cloud product director, said. When the hardware is linked to an account, a password isn’t enough - the user must plug in the key and activate it before getting access. Like similar keys from other companies, it will provide a second authentication factor for software use, network access, account management and other services.
The product is available now to Google Cloud customers and will eventually be available to general customers, the company announced Wednesday at its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco. Google will soon start widely selling its own Titan Security Key, which includes firmware developed by the omnipresent tech giant itself. The impressive security stat is due to small USB security keys issued to all 85,000 of the company’s employees. Companies that produce these small pieces of hardware, like Yubico, have seen tremendous growth over the last two years thanks to rapidly accelerating adoption - but they will now have fresh competition.
Google’s workforce hasn’t suffered a single confirmed account takeover in over a year.
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