Google offers to login via SMS, Zoho - via OneLogin, Apple - via facial recognition

Today, Google has significantly improved Google Apps security by implementing two-factor authentication. If an account administrator activates this feature, users after entering Google Apps login / password will need to enter a secret code that will be sent to them via SMS, or generated by mobile application or dictated via phone call. Thus, even if somebody steals your Google login and password - he won't be able to use them without your phone. Such security scheme is used in many online banking and online payment systems. At the moment the new feature is available in Google Apps Premiere Edition. Soon it will appear in free Google Apps accounts, as well as in personal GMail-accounts.



Unlike Google, Zoho decided not to invent the bicycle itself, but integrated with the authorization service OneLogin, which we have already reviewed. This service allows to provide all employees with a single point of authentication for all business apps and supports different authentication technologies, including sending code via SMS.



And Apple believes that all of these logins, passwords, and SMS confirmations - are so old. Today we have found that Apple has acquired Swedish company Polar Rose, which develops mobile applications for facial recognition. One of them - Recognizr - allows you to login to web services by simply taking picture of your face with the smartphone.

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