Google Login Security for High-Risk Users
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Google has a new login service for high-risk users. It’s good, but unforgiving.
Logging in from a desktop will require a special USB key, while accessing your data from a mobile device will similarly require a Bluetooth dongle. All non-Google services and apps will be exiled from reaching into your Gmail or Google Drive. Google’s malware scanners will use a more intensive process to quarantine and analyze incoming documents. And if you forget your password, or lose your hardware login keys, you’ll have to jump through more hoops than ever to regain access, the better to foil any intruders who would abuse that process to circumvent all of Google’s other safeguards.
It’s called Advanced Protection.
Tags: Gmail, Google, malware, phishing, risks, scanners, security engineering, USB
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