{"id":28989,"date":"2024-09-03T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=28989"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:03:04","slug":"what-are-passkeys-and-why-you-might-want-to-start-using-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/what-are-passkeys-and-why-you-might-want-to-start-using-them\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Passkeys? And Why You Might Want to Start Using Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">What are Passkeys? And Why You Might Want to Start Using Them<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Imagine you&#8217;re trying to unlock your front door. Instead of using a key that you have to remember and carry around, you could just use your fingerprint. That&#8217;s kind of like what passkeys are for online accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Passkeys are a safer and more convenient way to log in to websites and apps. Instead of remembering complex passwords, you can use your fingerprint, facial recognition, or a PIN to unlock your device. When you try to log in to a website that supports passkeys, your device will verify your identity using this biometric data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Why should you use them?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Security: Passkeys are much harder to hack than passwords. They&#8217;re protected by strong cryptographic technology that makes them almost impossible to steal.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Convenience: You don&#8217;t have to remember or type passwords anymore. Just use your device&#8217;s built-in security features.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">implicity: Setting up passkeys is easy, and they work seamlessly across different devices and platforms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;re going to use Google Accounts as an example of how to use passkeys if you&#8217;re using Windows. To generate a passkey for your Google account follow these steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">* Open the Google account page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">* Sign in with your password.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">* Click on Security from the left navigation page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">* Click the Passkeys option under the &#8220;How you sign in to Google&#8221; section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Passkeys are a big step forward in online safety, security, and convenience. They&#8217;re a more secure and user-friendly alternative to traditional passwords. So if the sites and apps you use support Passkeys, you might want to use them instead of passwords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/safety-security\/passkeys-default-google-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If you want to learn more about Passkeys, see this Google guide.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What are Passkeys? And Why You Might Want to Start Using Them Imagine you&#8217;re trying to unlock your front door. Instead of using a key that you have to remember and carry around, you could just use your fingerprint. That&#8217;s kind of like what passkeys are for online accounts. 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