Google Security Key stops anyone else using your account with a USB key

You want to make sure that nobody can access your Google account without your permission? Make sure you choose a secure password. You really want to make sure your account is safe? Activate the two-phase authentication.

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Now, even if someone has your password, it will not be able to identify you unless he also code that is sent to your smartphone or other device via SMS or the Google Authenticator app.

You do not want to use an application or wait for an SMS whenever you want to check your Gmail account? Now there is an easier way. Google supports the FIDO Security Key platform.

This means you can buy any security key U2F FIDO , and you can connect it to the USB port of your device before you can connect to your account using the Chrome browser.

Google automatically detects the key, and will not ask you a specific code. You will still need to enter your username and your password, so if someone steals your security key will not be able to access your account. But if he has your user name and password, but not the security key, it will be automatically locked and access will be denied.

Google is not the only company to offer a system of security key. The FIDO protocol U2F, Universal 2nd Factor , is an open standard that covers various technologies, including USB security key as well readers of fingerprints, iris scanners, voice and recognition Facial or Bluetooth and NFC devices.

Earlier this year, PayPal and Samsung were among the first companies to announce support for the ecosystem FIDO.