Google has been taking steps to raise the security level of all your services, as evidenced by the fact that end-to-end encryption has reached its RCS messaging, the one starring Google Messages. Or like the continuous commitment to its physical Titan Key keys, which in its latest iteration included NFC to be used by contact.
Now, Google has its eye on two-factor authentication, which we have talked about on more than one occasion. Google remains committed to further protecting its users’ accounts and has stated that, as part of its celebration of Cybersecurity Month, it will take care of bring 2FA authentication to more than 150 million users before the end of the year, and the same will happen with many of his YouTube creators, as he warned months ago.
More users with 2FA between now and the end of the year
Let’s remember that back in 2020, the one that we almost lost completely due to the pandemic, Google announced several security improvements for its services. It was then that the option of automatic deletion of the activity history of our accounts arrived or when the “Privacy check “ or “Privacy Checkup” to tell us if our passwords were secure or not. The company claims that it continues to verify the security of more than 1 billion keys to prevent its users from being hacked.
Now, Google will go one step further and focus on crossing more users from one side of the security border to the other. The company wants enable two-factor authentication, or 2FA, to another 150 million users of its services before the end of 2021. It also wants to do it with 2 million YouTube creators, although in this case it will not be an automatic activation but it will ask them to activate it manually.
Google account that recognizes that at the moment two-factor authentication is not the most appropriate process for all its users but that it continues to work on technologies that achieve it. Google intends that this authentication process, whose main bastion is in Google Authenticator, becomes the day-to-day of its users, creating a comfortable and transparent process as possible. We’ll see if it succeeds.
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