Google Cloud will soon make multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for all users, the platform’s Vice President of Engineering announce. Google says this decision has taken in a bid to strengthen the cloud platform’s security without affecting the convenient online experience that it provides.
Its rollout will commence in a phase manner, and enterprises and users will receive notification from Google Cloud ahead of the deployment of the mandatory MFA.
In a blog post, Mayank Upadhyay, Vice President of Engineering at Google Cloud announced that the platform will make MFA mandatory for all users who currently use a password as the sole means of authentication when logging in.
As of now, 70% of Cloud users already take advantage of additional MFA authentication, the Google says.
This measure will be implement worldwide for enterprises as well as individual users in a phased approach starting in 2025.
How to Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Google Account?
Follow These Steps :
- Access the security settings by navigating to the security.google.com website.
- Select 2-Step Verification under the How you sign in to Google tab.
- Follow the on-screen instructions like adding a phone number to complete the process.
Phase 1 of its rollout plan will commence this month where it will encourage the adoption of MFA by providing helpful reminders and more information about the technology in the Cloud Console.
It will also provide resources for planning and a smooth transition to MFA.
Starting Early 2025, phase 2 will begin and MFA for new and existing Google Cloud users will become mandatory.
You will need to enrol in MFA to use platforms like Google Cloud Console, Firebase Console and gCloud.
Phase 3 of the rollout will commence by the end of 2025 and using MFA will become mandatory for those using federate authentication while signing into Google Cloud.
They will be provide flexible options for signing in, such as enabling MFA with the primary identity provider or using it directly via the Google account.
