Well, it certainly wasn’t my intention to post about Evernote two days in a row,[1] but the company just released an update that I need to give you a heads up about: they’ve significantly beefed up their security by offering Two-factor authentication.
Two-factor authentication, or 2FA, is a combination of something you know (your Evernote username and password) with something you have (in this case, your mobile device).
Premium users can now set it up so that in addition to your credentials, you will need to enter a special code sent via SMS to your phone or generated by Google Authenticator. If you are familiar with Google or Dropbox’s implementation, it works very similarly.
Apparently this will be rolled out to free users soon, but for now it is just for Premium users (they say they are doing it this way to start it off with a smaller audience for such a big change).
Evernote’s Blog has a post that shows how to set two-factor authentication up.
Free users are not left behind entirely. There are two more security features that are available to everyone:
- A live list of authorized applications so that you can see and revoke access to third-party apps.
- An access history screen that shows when your Evernote account was accessed and from where.
Enabling Two-factor authentication for Evernote is entirely optional, but if you store information in there that you wouldn’t want others to see, I recommend you take a look at it.
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See yesterday’s Evernote Reminders video. ↩