Google Cloud to make multi-factor authentication mandatory in 2025
Google has confirmed plans to require all Google Cloud customers to use multi-factor authentication (MFA), a process that kicks off this month with prompts and “helpful reminders” embedded inside the Google Cloud console, before a gradual enforcement period starting in the new year.
The news, inarguably a long-time coming, arrives amid a swathe of data breaches, with at least 1 billion stolen records in 2024 so far. By way of example, the UnitedHealth-owned healthcare giant Change Healthcare was hit by ransomware attack in February, a data breach that saw health data stolen on more than 100 million people in the United States. The cause? Stolen backend credentials that lay unprotected by MFA.
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