Use Passkeys: Difference between revisions

Summary	Setup passkeys for your Riverdale account
Author	Maintained by Jonathan King
Help	Get help with this article
Status	Up-to-date for the 2024-2025 school year.

Latest revision as of 14:57, 30 August 2024

Why use Passkeys?

We've seen big changes in online security in the past few years. MFA (aka 2-step authentication), has seen a massive increase in the security of our systems, requiring both your password, and a "second factor" such as your phone which pretty effectively stops bad actors from accessing your accounts.

The next evolution of online security is passkeys, a replacement for passwords that are designed to provide websites and apps a password-less sign-in experience that is both more convenient and more secure.

Configure Passkeys at Riverdale

It's easy to setup Passkeys within your Riverdale Google Account, and then anytime you need to "logon with Google" your Passkey will be available right in your browser!

Start by logging into Google using your Riverdale Account on the computer you bring to school
Open the Security settings page
Click Passkeys and security keys
Click + Create a Passkey and follow the directions

When done, you will no longer be asked to provide a password to logon to Google, but instead supply the Passkey stored on your computer as part of the setup above. If you are using a password manager (strongly recommended!) then that passkey can be available on your other devices as well.

Where else can I use Passkeys?

All modern web browsers and operating systems have built-in support for Passkeys.

Password managers like 1Password, Dashlane, all support Passkeys.

Apple has extensive support for Passkeys in macOS, iOS, iPadOS.

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 == Why use Passkeys? ==
-We've seen big changes in online security in the past few years. MFA (aka 2-step authentication), has seen a massive increase in the security of our systems, requiring both your password, and a "second factor" such as your phone which pretty effectively stops bad actors from accessing your accounts. The next evolution of online security is '''Passkeys, a replacement for passwords that are designed to provide websites and apps a password-less sign-in experience that is both more convenient and more secure'''.
+We've seen big changes in online security in the past few years. MFA (aka 2-step authentication), has seen a massive increase in the security of our systems, requiring both your password, and a "second factor" such as your phone which pretty effectively stops bad actors from accessing your accounts.
-== How do I configure and use Passkeys at Riverdale? ==
+The next evolution of online security is '''passkeys, a replacement for passwords that are designed to provide websites and apps a password-less sign-in experience that is both more convenient and more secure'''.
+== Configure Passkeys at Riverdale ==
 It's easy to setup Passkeys within your Riverdale Google Account, and then anytime you need to "logon with Google" your Passkey will be available right in your browser!
-# Start by logging into [https://mail.google.com/ Google using your Riverdale Account]
+# Start by logging into [https://mail.google.com/ '''''Google using your Riverdale Account'''''] ''on the computer you bring to school''
-# Open the [https://myaccount.google.com/security Security settings] page
+# Open the [https://myaccount.google.com/security '''''Security settings'''''] page
-# Click "Passkeys and security keys"
+# Click '''''Passkeys and security keys'''''
-# Click "+ Create a Passkey" and follow the directions
+# Click '''''+ Create a Passkey''''' and follow the directions
+When done, you will no longer be asked to provide a password to logon to Google, but instead supply the Passkey stored on your computer as part of the setup above. If you are using a password manager (strongly recommended!) then that passkey can be available on your other devices as well.
+[[File:Iorad - Google - Create Passkey (4).gif|800x800px]]
 == Where else can I use Passkeys? ==
-All modern web browsers have built-in support for Passkeys, as do all modern operating systems.
+All modern web browsers and operating systems have built-in support for Passkeys.
-Password managers like 1Password, Dashlane, all support Passkeys
+Password managers like 1Password, Dashlane, all support Passkeys.
 [https://support.apple.com/en-us/102195 Apple has extensive support for Passkeys] in macOS, [https://support.apple.com/en-mt/guide/iphone/iphf538ea8d0/ios iOS], iPadOS.