Google has added Passkey support for Workspace accounts that are rolling out, and Cloud now has support for passkeys.

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 who made available Passkeys for Google Accounts and started rolling 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 threats records, you will find 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 was a struggle against phishing and social engineering attacks. After Google released Passkeys for personal accounts, it has now been extended to business accounts. So, let’s look at this updated change.

Google, Dashlane, and 1Password offer Passkeys as an alternative to passwords.

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Google added Passkey support for Workspace

It was almost 60 years passed since technology companies used passwords for secured authentication. But with time, hackers have become more efficient in 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 you into a particular account.

Passkeys 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 Passkeys need the physical existence of the person whose account needs to be accessed, so there is no scope for phishing. Understandably, using Passkeys instead of Passwords cannot be justified in this way. So, let’s see what is better after Passkeys.

• No scope for guessing by hackers
• Passkeys are Phishing restrictive technology
• Don’t need to remember passwords or pattern
• Platform syncs passkeys using Google accounts

Passkeys do have a few downsides, such as servers breach causing phishing and some problems with account verification. But I think these issues have a very low chance of occurring. I mean to say, even after these two downsides Passkeys are still successful and more reliable than Passwords. Now you know about the Passkey concept, its advantages and disadvantages, then the next step is to set up Passkey. So below we share a few instructions 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) and 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 Passkeys to sign in” and tap done.
7. That’s all. You can now use Passkeys on this device to log in.

Besides that, In case you want to connect another device using your phone. Then all you need to do is first enable Bluetooth and proper a screen lock. Next head to the Google account page on your PC >> Under the security section head to use Passkey and select the QR code option >> Now QR code will appear on your screen after that scan that code using your phone >> Tap Use Passkey and allow button >> Use your biometric to login >> congratulations you get successfully login on another device using Passkey.

Conclusively, Passkeys are new ways to uphold phishing attacks with the pinch of physical verification. For which here we have explained to you all the required things. Even if any user wants to disable Passkey 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 Passkey. And Tap the X icon next to that to disable Passkey.

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