Here's What To Know About Google Cloud Mandating MFA By End Of 2025
SC Media, Thursday, November 21st, 2024
Google announced earlier this month that it will enforce mandatory multifactor authentication (MFA) for all Google Cloud users by the end of 2025. According to Google, 70% of its users already have MFA enabled, an encouraging stat, but this new mandate promises to usher all Google Cloud customers into a new era of improved cybersecurity.
Starting early next year, Google will begin requiring MFA for all new and existing Cloud users who use a password to sign in. The next phase of the roll-out will see Google extend this MFA requirement to all users who federate authentication into Google Cloud by the end of 2025.
As an industry, we should applaud this move by Google - it's a requirement that's long overdue. After all, MFA has become a foundational security function that has proven essential in protecting both organizations and individual users against the rise of phishing and credential-based attacks.