{"id":269693,"date":"2018-07-26T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=269693"},"modified":"2018-07-26T07:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:56:31","slug":"google-building-its-own-hardware-security-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/269693-google-building-its-own-hardware-security-keys.html","title":{"rendered":"Google building its own hardware security keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is working on its own hardware security keys to aid in combating phishing attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s device is called the <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/security-key\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Titan Key<\/strong><\/a> and will be available in two models, both of which are FIDO-compatible and can be used across other services which support hardware key two-factor authentication.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Titan Key devices will work with Bluetooth and support mobile and desktop devices, while the other plugs into a USB port.<\/p>\n<p>Google said it has completely cut out phishing attacks against more than 85,000 employees by requiring them to use hardware security key two-factor authentication.<\/p>\n<p>Hardware security keys are one of the most effective two-factor authentication methods, but users will need to avoid losing their physical devices.<\/p>\n<p>Google said its Titan Key is available to Google Cloud customers and will soon be listed in its online store.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/269455-google-assistant-now-supports-duo-video-calls.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Assistant now supports Duo video calls<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is working on its own hardware security keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":269695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49901,167,33897,52699,38240],"class_list":["post-269693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-fido","tag-google","tag-google-cloud","tag-titan-key","tag-two-factor-authentication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269699,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269693\/revisions\/269699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}