The company announces in a blog post Monday that it has extended its Advanced Safety System to Nest Devices, offering additional security for its intelligent home devices. Initially, a user could use either the Advanced Protection Program or Nest's Google Account, but now they can do both with the same Google Account.
Shuvo Chatterjee, Advanced Protection Programs Product Manager, wrote in a blog post, "One of our goals is to introduce Advanced Protect 's features to other Google products after we introduced them. "We want the additional security levels the Program provides to as many users as possible."
The Advanced Safety Software is planned for online activists, corporate leaders, policymakers and journalists at risk of targeted attacks. It needs phystical safety keys, one that must be used with a user password, so most outside access to a Google account is limited, unknown apps are blocked so fraudulent attempts are made to access an account. Advanced security features include Gmail, Drive and G Suite, Google Cloud and Android. Some of them are already integrated.
Earlier this year , Google introduced several new security features for Nest, including the need for users who have not yet moved their nest accounts to Google Accounts to two-factor authentication.
Users need 2 physical security keys to register for advanced protection — one main and one backup — and an Android 7 or higher phone or iOS ten.0 or higher. Android users can register their phones and activate the integrated security key, while the Google Smart Lock App must be downloaded by Apple users.
