Google Announced New Titan Security Key

Recently, Google has announced its new product which is called ‘Titan Security Key’ at its next conference. Presently it is only available for the Cloud customers and also scheduled for the general sale in the upcoming months. Though the key is basically used to substantiate the logins above the Bluetooth and USB, and it is almost similar to the existing offerings from Yubico and some other providers. One of the Google representatives said that the Titan Security Key would also include special firmware which is developed by the Google only to verify its authenticity.

In a recent post-Google said that the Titan Security Key provides you more peace of mind that your accounts are safe and protected, with the full assurance from Google of the reliability of the physical key.

While the Titan Security Key is built to the FIDO specification; it’s a long-planned authentication standard which is generally supported by some apps and also web browsers. Thus, the device might be used for login into non-Google services, although those services might not be even able to take advantages of the equivalent firmware verification. Whereas, the Titan Security Key provides considerably much stronger security than a verification code, sometimes which can be stolen through a impart attack.

By this Titan Security feature, users might be hoping to take advantage of that protection which should confirm to prohibit the non-security key logins, and it is available through the Google’s Advanced Protection program. It is also very wise to keep the second key in safe and protected storage just in case if the primary key is lost or stolen.

For over a year, Google has been internally testing the key, but recently made it available only for the outside company. Apart from this, all Google employees are required to log in with some physical tokens because of the security reasons, a system that seems to be working. Earlier of this week, the company also announced that it had not had any single successful account takeovers since by implementing the policy in early 2017.

Marshall Lyne is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at www.norton.com/setup .

Source: newsshub