Passkeys, Cross-Account Protection and new ways we’re protecting your accounts

May 02, 2024

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Passwords are often astatine nan halfway of today’s awesome cybersecurity issues, which is why we’ve continued to create caller authentication exertion over nan years. In 2022, for World Password Day, we launched passkeys. Today, we’re proud to denote that they person since been utilized to authenticate users much than 1 cardinal times crossed complete 400 cardinal Google Accounts.

We’re besides excited to denote nan description of our Cross-Account Protection programme and caller updates to passkeys.

Expanding Cross-Account Protection

We’re expanding Cross-Account Protection — our programme for sharing information notifications, successful a privacy-preserving way, pinch different companies that tally nan non-Google apps and services you use. This helps forestall cybercriminals from gaining a foothold successful 1 of your accounts and utilizing it to infiltrate others. We are presently protecting 2.4 cardinal accounts crossed 3.4 cardinal apps and sites, and are increasing our collaborations crossed nan manufacture to support billions of users safer online. It’s built connected nan Shared Signals Framework, which we helped create and motorboat successful 2019, and successful nan coming twelvemonth we’re expanding our partnerships and support for this program. Stay tuned for which of your favourite apps and services statesman utilizing Cross-Account Protection.

Passkeys reaches a milestone — and what’s next

In little than a year, passkeys person been utilized to authenticate group much than 1 cardinal times crossed complete 400 cardinal Google Accounts. Passkeys are easy to usage and phishing resistant, only relying connected a fingerprint, look scan aliases a pin making them 50% faster than passwords. In fact, connected a regular ground passkeys are already utilized for authentication connected Google Accounts much often than bequest forms of 2SV, specified arsenic SMS one-time passwords (OTPs) and app based OTPs (such arsenic Authenticator apps) combined.

• Passkeys for precocious consequence users. We’ll soon support nan usage of passkeys to enroll successful our strongest information offering, nan Advanced Protection Program (APP). APP safeguards users who are astatine nan highest consequence of targeted attacks, including run workers and candidates, journalists, quality authorities workers, and more. APP traditionally required utilizing hardware information keys arsenic a 2nd factor; but soon users tin enroll successful APP pinch immoderate passkey successful summation to their hardware information keys; aliases usage their passkeys arsenic a sole facet aliases on pinch a password. In a captious predetermination year, we’ll beryllium bringing this characteristic to our users who request it most, and proceed to activity pinch experts for illustration Defending Digital Campaigns, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Asia Centre, Internews and Possible to thief protect world precocious consequence users.
• More prime successful wherever you shop your passkeys. We are pleased to spot independent password head vendors, specified arsenic 1Password and Dashlane, now leveraging nan passkeys guidance APIs connected Android and different operating systems. This important milestone, together pinch the expertise to shop passkeys connected information keys, will springiness users much control.

• Growing manufacture support for passkeys. Since we launched passkeys we’ve seen our database of partners grow, strengthening information for group crossed platforms. In conscionable nan past 12 months, Amazon, 1Password, Dashlane, Docusign, Kayak, Mercari and Shopify person started rolling retired passkeys, joining early adopters for illustration eBay, Uber, PayPal and Whatsapp. In fact, Dashlane is seeing a 70% summation successful conversion pinch passkeys and Kayak users are signing successful 50% faster than before.