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Passwords are often at the core of today\u2019s major cybersecurity issues, which is why we\u2019ve continued to create new authentication technology over the years. In 2022, for World Password Day, we launched passkeys. Today, we\u2019re proud to announce that they have since been used to authenticate users more than 1 billion times across over 400 million Google Accounts.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re also excited to announce the expansion of our Cross-Account Protection program and new updates to passkeys.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re expanding Cross-Account Protection \u2014 our program for sharing security notifications, in a privacy-preserving way, with other companies that run the non-Google apps and services you use. This helps prevent cybercriminals from gaining a foothold in one of your accounts and using it to infiltrate others. We are currently protecting 2.4 billion accounts across 3.4 million apps and sites, and are growing our collaborations across the industry to keep billions of users safer online. It\u2019s built on the Shared Signals Framework, which we helped create and launch in 2019, and in the coming year we\u2019re expanding our partnerships and support for this program. Stay tuned for which of your favorite apps and services begin using Cross-Account Protection.<\/p>\n
In less than a year, passkeys have been used to authenticate people more than 1 billion times across over 400 million Google Accounts. Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin making them 50% faster than passwords. In fact, on a daily basis passkeys are already used for authentication on Google Accounts more often than legacy forms of 2SV, such as SMS one-time passwords (OTPs) and app based OTPs (such as Authenticator apps) combined.<\/p>\n