Google's Titan Security Key is now available in Canada

Afterward first launching in the U.Due south. well-nigh exactly a twelvemonth ago, Google's showtime-party Titan Security Key is at present available to buy in Canada, likewise as France, the U.One thousand. and Japan.

Each key is actually 2 separate tokens — one that connects to devices via USB and NFC and another that connects via Bluetooth — that Google bundles together. Canadian consumers tin can purchase an individual bundle for $65 CAD. Each package also ships with a USB-C to USB-A adapter, and a micro USB to USB-A cablevision to ensure individuals can secure their web logins no matter what combination of devices they own.

While the Titan Security Primal is primarily designed to secure Google services logins, each token is fully FIDO compliant (the security brotherhood, non the Rogers flanker brand), which means they can besides exist used for two-gene authentication on websites similar Facebook, Dropbox and GitHub.

What's more, Google designed the Titan Security Key specifically as a defence against phishing. One issue with other forms of ii-cistron authentication is that information technology's nonetheless theoretically possible for a hacker to phish a loftier-value individual's account information, password and 2-factor login by tricking them into visiting the wrong website.

In contrast, the Titan Security Key is far more than resilient to phishing attacks since, in addition to functioning as a way to cosign an individual, it uses a public-private key handshake to ensure its owner is on the correct website.

Co-ordinate to statistics compiled by Google, if a hacker is able to deport out a successful phishing attack they're 500 times more likely to alienation an business relationship successfully. Using account information they found online or a key logger, a hacker is comparatively only x and 40 times more than probable to alienation an account. The likelihood of success associated with phishing, combined with simply how piece of cake and price-effective it is to do at scale, is what makes phishing and then prevalent today.

To enable a Titan Security Key, visit your Google business relationship page and enable two-step verification.