How to Protect Your Google Account

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Google announced new protection features to help users stay safe online.

Personalized tips from the new Security Checkup

Google launches a renewed Security Checkup, which now provides personalized guidance. Instead of the passive control list for everyone, Security Checkup is a personalized guide to protect your data.

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When you visit the Security Test, you will automatically see your security status -green tic means you are safe, and the yellow or red exclamation mark means there is at least one issue to be solved. Control is now your personal security adviser -a helpful “close friend”– that helps you keep your account safe.

You can be sure that the new Security Control will continue to evolve as new threats arise, to provide you with relevant, updated safety tips that you can use to keep your account protected.

You can do the Security Check in g.co/securitycheckup

Protect phishing forecasting in Chrome

Google Safe browsing has help protect Chrome users from the email ‘phishing’ attacks for more than 10 years and protects more than 3 billion devices daily, viewing alerts users before they visit unsafe sites or download dangerous files.

Secure browsing scans the web for these dangerous sites.

Google is planning to expand the provision of protection from e-‘Fishing’ all passwords saved in Chrome, and urge other applications and browsers that utilize the Safe Browsing technology, such as Safari, Firefox and Snapchat, to use it.

Advanced Protection Program

The program focuses on three basic protection functions:

1. The strongest defense against email “phishing”: The -Little USB or wireless devices- security keys have long been considered the safest version of the 2-step verification (2-Step Verification) and the best protection against online “fishing”. Advanced Protection requires the use of security keys to log in to your account, and will automatically block any login attempt without the security keys, even if someone has intercepted your password.
2. Sharing your data only with trusted applications: Sometimes users allow unauthorized access to their Google data in malicious applications. “Invaders” may deceive users to grant such access in order to gain access to their data without having to log in to their account. Advanced protection automatically prevents this from happening by restricting access to Gmail and Drive files to known, trusted applications.
3. Blocking fraudulent access to your account: Another common way hackers try to access your account is by acting to you and pretending to be locked out of your account. Additional steps have been added to avoid this during account recovery – including additional reviews and requests for more details about why you have lost access to your account. Because this may take extra time, Google wants to be sure you will never be locked out of your account. This is why Advanced Protection requires you to install a backup copy of Security Keys before you can sign up.

Anyone with a Gmail personal account can enroll in Advanced Protection, the new personalized program for those who need the most secure Google security. (The G Suite administrators can refer to the Empowering Key Security and OAuth apps whitelisting, which give an equivalent level of protection to the G Suite accounts. To register, visit g.co/advancedprotection.

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