Google has introduced passkey support for both Workspace and Cloud accounts.

Do you know what people say about Apple’s privacy policies? They think from a user’s perspective and apply it as required. As Google announced Passkey support in an open beta, Apple was one of the first to adopt the system before Google. But thanks to Google, which made available passwords for Google accounts and started rolling them out today. However, for personal accounts, it was already released a month ago, but now they have extended it to businesses too.

If you look over past security threat records, you will find that around 60% of data breaches in 2021 included stolen credentials. Similarly, in 2022, phishing attacks increased by 61%, which cost the organization an average of $4.91 million. For Google, the last decade has been a struggle with phishing and social engineering attacks. After Google released passwords for personal accounts, they have now been extended to business accounts. So, let’s look at this updated change.

Google has added password support to Workspace.

It has been almost 60 years since technology companies used passwords for secured authentication. However, with time, hackers have become more efficient at breaking password authentication using its weaknesses. For such a purpose, a concept called “Passkeys” came about that uses your fingerprint, face, or any other physical recognition to access a particular account.

Passwords are similar to physical keys to open door locks. Because hackers can use password terms to determine what could be a password and access your account. But passwords require the physical existence of the person whose account needs to be accessed, so there is no scope for phishing. Understandably, using passwords instead of passwords cannot be justified in this way. So, let’s see what is better after passwords.

• There is no scope for guessing by hackers.
• Passkeys are phishing-restrictive technology.
• You don’t need to remember passwords or patterns.
• Platform syncs passkeys using Google accounts

Passkeys do have a few downsides, such as server breaches causing phishing and some problems with account verification. But I think these issues have a very low chance of occurring. I mean, even after these two downsides, passwords are still successful and more reliable than passwords. Now that you know about the Passkey concept and its advantages and disadvantages, the next step is to set up Passkey. So below, we share a few instructions on how to set up or use Passkey on your Google account.

Note: Before doing anything, consider that to use the Passkey feature, you should have Android 9 or above (for Android) and iOS 16 or above (for iOS). As is true for Windows (Windows 10) Mac (macOS Ventura) and ChromeOS 109, respectively. Additionally, enable screen lock.

1. Open a web browser on your device.
2. Then head to your account page.
3. From there, tap on the security section.
4. Scroll down, and you will see a new option, “Passkeys,” beyond the 2-step verification option.
5. Tap on Passkeys and verify your ownership using a fingerprint or other physically evident way.
6. Following this, a message prompt says, “You can now use passwords to sign in,” and you tap Done.
7. That’s all. You can now use passwords on this device to log in.

Besides that, if you want to connect another device using your phone, then all you need to do is first enable Bluetooth and create a screen lock. Next, head to the Google account page on your PC. Under the security section, head to using a password and select the QR code option. Now a QR code will appear on your screen. After that, scan that code using your phone. Tap the Use Passkey and Allow button >> Use your biometric to log in. Congratulations! You have successfully logged in on another device using Passkey.

Conclusively, passwords are new ways to uphold phishing attacks with the pinch of physical verification. For which we have explained to you all the required things. Even if any user wants to disable the password for the particular device, then simply head to your Google account page and select Manage Devices. From there, find the device for which you want to disable the password. Tap the X icon next to that to disable the password.

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