Google took its efforts to protect online accounts up a notch this week, announcing its own hardware-based security key.
Announced at Google’s Cloud Next conference, the Titan keys are a two-factor authentication (2FA) solution, designed to combat one of the most prevalent forms of online attack: account hijacking. Without 2FA, attackers who guess or steal a person’s password can use it to log in and impersonate them.
With 2FA, people accessing an account must prove that they are legitimate by using a device that they physically own (or a physical feature like a fingerprint) to log in.
Google had announced earlier this week that it had stopped attackers gaining access to all of its 85,050 employees’ accounts since it began using hardware-based security keys internally in 2017. Now it seems that it wants to extend these benefits to its users.
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