If you're someone who is
Extremely paranoid when it comes to computer security or maybe even not I think you'll be interested in this video because Google has recently
Launched a new service called the Google advanced protection program
So you can enable the maximum most security possible for your Google account and almost?
guarantee that no one is ever going to get access to it that you don't want and
Yes, this is awesome for security, but also
Not for everybody including me
I think this is even just another level of security above what I would ever need and the
inconvenience it would cause would not really be worth it, but for some people such as
CEOs
journalists politicians
The risk is that they might be?
specifically targeted by cyber criminals trying to get access to their account and those people might literally be spying and
Waiting for them to get fished or try repeatedly to do it and in that type of case
Where you're at a higher risk? This is something that might be useful so how does this protection program work and?
Unlike the name it's not like people in black suits follow you around with earpieces and make sure that no one hacks you
But rather it enables
Safeguards and disables other methods of access so that only you definitely have access
Specifically, it makes you sign up with to physical security keys an example is this one
It's a basically a little $20 thing you plug it in and when you go to log in you tap the button
instead of other methods of two-factor authentication such as typing in an SMS code and
The idea is that with the protection program you have to use one of these you can't use codes
unlike regular
two-factor authentication when you enable it now when you go to sign up it says that you need to use one USB and one
Bluetooth key, but it did let me sign up with two of these so I guess you don't need it
But you might if you want to use it on mobile which I'll get to in a bit
The other main feature is that it severely limits
What third-party apps can access for your account specifically it doesn't really let them access any
Emails or your Google Drive
information or files on there so that if you were to
Accidentally give access to some app that either God hack itself, or was a nefarious from the beginning
Then they wouldn't be able to get your account at all anyway
And if you already did give access to certain apps
Then those would now be revoked from being able to access your emails or you drive data
and those are only for
third-party services if you do want to use an app it has to be an
Official Google app such as the Gmail app or the inbox app or even Google Calendar or something like that, and if you're using
IOS, they specifically say that you're not going to be able to use any Apple apps to access your Google account so you can't use
Apple Mail to read your email
You can't use the Apple contacts to sync apparently and not even Google care apple calendar
You can use Google Calendar, so it seems like it locks down a lot more than just emails and drive data
But pretty much
almost all information
On your account and on top of that if you want to log in to any Google services whether it's Gmail or calendar you have
to use Google Chrome
So I guess the reason behind that is obviously Google can better integrate security features
And I believe up until recently only Google Chrome allowed security keys
I think Firefox might now, but I'm not 100% sure on that so that might be part of it and also Google knows well
We know how our security is on Google Chrome, and they might not trust any other browsers
Especially when it comes to bugs and the final feature has to do with account recovery so in the event that you somehow do lose
Both of your security keys they do have a way you can recover your account but apparently they have added extra
steps that they aren't really specific about where it'll take a lot longer to your recovery your account because they have to verify
a bunch of information about you, and they say it could take several days
So this is obviously important if someone wants to falsely
Request access and say they're you but you just lost your keys well
Then they want to make sure that that is actually not the case that someone trying to hack into you so clearly this is
Extremely secure probably as secure as you can get at the moment, and it does require to use a physical security key
Which is also the most secure form of two-factor authentication right now?
But is it too much of a hassle for most people and I think the answer is yes
It's definitely not for most people like I said before it's people who are at risk of being
specifically targeted high-risk where someone will
Really be trying to trick you and in that case you need to make sure that you can't be phished
Which is why that security key is so important
But obviously with that security key comes a lot of inconvenience and means you're not going to be able to use it in some
situations specifically on mobile obviously on a computer you can just plug it into the USB port
I don't know about you, but I've never seen a hey a
phone with a full USB port on it now that is where that
Bluetooth key would come in I guess you could connect that and use that instead
Also, some keys made by yubico that is by the way the company that makes these keys they do make an NFC enabled key
So if you're on Android you can use that so it just needs to be nearby you press the button however
IPhone is very restrictive when it comes to NFC they they will not let you use this type of feature
Just because it's so lockdown so if you were to have this feature enabled it really wouldn't work that well on iphone
I guess you could use it with Bluetooth, but you wouldn't be able to use the most convenient features like the
NFC key and even if you did have kind of a need for this it would probably
best be used on the count where you really only use it for email because
Like I said if you do want to use it with other services
Then you really can't so it would work really well if it was just for email
You don't have to login to any other services because then you're gonna just use the Gmail or inbox app like normal
You don't really have to worry about anything. It's not going to be taking away
You can use other services with your regular accounts that aren't as secure so for those of us who aren't being specifically targeted by?
Foreign governments perhaps. What would be best for us for security as a balance inconvenience?
And I would say like I've said many times before that would be regular two-factor authentication
Enable it on your account all of your accounts that have it available especially Google and your bank accounts for example
Because think about it if someone gets access to your gmail account
They have access to basically all your other accounts if you use that as your recovery method
So you can use either SMS codes or?
authentication apps such as of--they or Google Authenticator and
Yeah, I suggest using an Authenticator app but SMS is fine too for most people again unless you're gonna be specifically targeted
And if you want you can actually get one of these keys I'll put a link the description in Amazon if you want to check
It out again. These are 18 dollars
You don't have to have the advanced protection to use this I have it on my account
so you can actually have it, so you can use any of the methods you want phone SMS or
Authenticator app or this and this is actually extra convenient. I think because I just kind of keep one of these plugged into my computer
Right on my USB hub on my desktop so whenever I go to login. I just tap the button
I don't have to fumble through and wait for a code or anything like that
It's actually easier to have this and then I can also use the codes if I'm out and about and don't have this with me
Or don't have I don't a cell reception
I can use the Authenticator app so yeah, that's pretty much it not much more to it
Maybe a few of you do decide to enable this who knows and the rest of you highly recommend enable two-factor
Authentication again if you haven't already so let me know what you think down the comment section if you want to keep watching
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