You can now shore up your smart home security by leveraging Google’s top security offering
Google has announced that its Advanced Protection Program (APP) is now available for Nest smart home devices. People could previously use their Google account with either APP or Nest devices, but not both at the same time.
The update has been high on the wish list of Google’s userbase, Shuvo Chatterjee, APP product manager, wrote in a blog post on Monday.
“Since we launched, one of our goals has been to bring Advanced Protection’s features to other Google products. Over the years, we’ve incorporated many of them into GSuite, Google Cloud Platform, Chrome, and most recently, Android,” said Chatterjee, adding that Google wanted as many people as possible to benefit from the extra security provided by the program.
The addition of APP is the latest in a slew of security features that have been rolled out to the popular line of connected devices following reports of hijackings of multiple Nest devices and vulnerabilities in Nest security cameras.
Two-factor authentication has become mandatory for Nest owners who haven’t turned on this option or migrated to a Google account. Meanwhile, reCAPTCHA Enterprise was added to lower the likelihood of automated attacks, and login notifications were rolled out to the platform back in December.
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