Originally published on PlayStation Insider on August 25, 2016. PlayStation Insider is no longer active, so I have republished the news piece here for myself. If you would like to see the original post, check out the Web Archive.

Finally, five years after the great PSN outage of 2011, Sony has enabled two-factor authentication for users on all their Playstation products. The feature was added in the middle of last night.

On your PS4 go to Settings > PlayStation Network Account Management > Account Information > Security > 2-Step Verification. You can also set it up online under the security settings in your account.

Two-factor authentication uses a cell phone number to text a verification code to users whenever they attempt to log in. At this time, you can only use a cell phone and not popular code generating apps, such as Google’s Authenticator. For a company known to be susceptible to hacks and security leaks, it is comforting to finally have this feature available.