Google Cloud is making multi-factor authentication mandatory for all users

2 weeks ago

Google is encouraging Cloud customers to alteration MFA now
All users will request to alteration MFA by nan extremity of 2025
30% of Google users don’t usage MFA yet

Google Cloud has confirmed its users will request to enforce multi-factor authentication wrong nan adjacent fewer months arsenic portion of a awesome information push.

After softly announcing nan alteration successful an October document, Google Cloud VP of Engineering and Distinguished Engineer Mayank Upadhyay revealed nan rollout will beryllium successful phases, pinch mandatory MFA for each Google Cloud customers group to get by nan extremity of 2025.

Google has promised to smoothen nan rollout of nan MFA request by dropping notifications connected endeavor users up of time, truthful that they tin enact nan alteration pinch their employees.

Google Cloud now mandates nan usage of MFA

“We’ve been beardown advocates for our MFA strategy for complete a decade," noted Upadhyay, highlighting really nan institution will now statesman encouraging users to alteration MFA done reminders and different accusation popups successful nan Google Cloud console.

From 2025, caller and existing customers utilizing password logins will request to move connected MFA successful their accounts, and by nan extremity of nan year, each users who federate authentication into Google Cloud (via 3rd parties) will besides request to alteration nan further information step.

The institution revealed astir 1 successful 3 (30%) Google users still trust connected conscionable passwords, highlighting nan standard of nan activity required to thrust wider MFA adoption.

Given nan caller surge successful high-profile information breaches and nan amplification of attacks acknowledgment to generative AI, adding MFA to accounts will make it much difficult for hackers to unit introduction via phishing scams.

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Research from nan Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) suggests MFA tin make users 99% little apt to beryllium hacked.

In nan blog post, Upadhyay proudly proclaimed Google led nan consumer-scale MFA thrust much than a decade agone successful 2011, erstwhile it implemented 2-step Verification.

Despite nan looming deadline, Google Cloud customers tin statesman to adopt MFA already, truthful they won’t request to hold for a circumstantial portion of nan phased rollout.