Security News > 2020 > January > Google Account Security Keys Launch for iPhone

Google has extended its Advanced Protection Program for account security to the iPhone platform, aimed at those that are the most-targeted by cybercriminals: Members of political campaign teams, journalists, activists, executives, employees in regulated industries such as finance or government, and others.

These can either be a physical security key or a smartphone's built-in security key.

"Unlike other two-factor authentication methods that try to verify your sign-in, security keys are built with FIDO standards," explained Christiaan Brand, product manager at Google Cloud and Kaiyu Yan, Google software engineer, in a posting on Wednesday.

"We also highly recommend registering a backup security key to your account and keeping it in a safe place, so you can get into your account if you lose your phone," said Brand and Yan.

Account takeover attempts are not infrequent: Chatterjee said that from July to September, Google sent more than 12,000 warnings to account users around the world about inauthentic logins.

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