In May of this year, Google announced plans to enable two-factor authentication by default to help keep accounts even more secure. The company has now recalled its intentions and announced that it will activate 2FA for 150 million accounts by the end of this year.
Three years ago, the search giant reported that only 10% of active accounts use two-factor authentication. Since then, the company has been actively promoting this method of user identification. Google has partnered with a variety of organizations, issuing more than 10,000 hardware security keys annually, and the drive to mainstream the technology has made it available on Android and iPhone mobile devices.
In addition to the default two-factor authentication, Google is making other changes to keep accounts safe. Among them is a password manager, which will soon begin to generate passwords not only for the Chrome browser, but also for other applications, and all saved data can be viewed in a separate menu of the Google application.
And one more no less important innovation that concerns inactive accounts. In 2013, Google added the ability to assign a decision in the event that an account was no longer used within a certain period of time (from 3 to 18 months). Now the company has introduced the Inactive Account Manager feature, where all parameters regarding inactive accounts are collected.
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