Google this week announced expansions to the Advanced Protection Program, with the addition of Google Nest and support for more types of security keys for iOS users.
With the Advanced Protection Program, the Internet search giant aims to provide the strongest possible Google Account security for individuals at high risk of targeted attacks.
The program is aimed at journalists, activists, business leaders, and people working on elections, but allows anyone to sign up and receive extra safeguards against phishing, malware, and fraudulent access to data.
Over the years, Google rolled out Advanced Protection Program features for many of its services, including GSuite, Google Cloud Platform, Chrome and, most recently, Android, and this week made it available for Google Nest as well, providing its users with an additional layer of security.
“Now people can seamlessly use their Google Accounts with both Advanced Protection and Google Nest devices -- previously, a user could use their Google Account on only one of these at a time,” Google announced.
Also this week, the company started pushing native support for the W3C WebAuthn implementation for Google accounts on devices running iOS 13.3 and newer versions, for both personal and work Google accounts.
The new capability, the company says, allows the owners of iOS devices to use more types of security keys for Google Account and the Advanced Protection Program.
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