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3 Quick Ways to Secure Google Account

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Google accounts or more commonly known as Gmail account is one of the commonest, yet most important parts of today’s life. There are also quite a few threats for your account in the internet. The commonest of them is the threat of account hacking and identity theft. If you cannot decipher the symptoms properly, then you won’t be able to understand if your Google account is under threat or not.
You can learn that trick and find out if your account is threatened or not. It is also known that prevention is better than cure. So, if you can find a way to secure your Google account, you no longer have to worry about these threats and problems. There are quite a few ways which can help you to secure your account, but here you will come across only three of the simplest and quickest ways of securing your Google account from the threats.

Monitor the account activities

First and simplest of the ways is to monitor your account activity. At the bottom of your Gmail inbox, you will find the last account activity indicator and it will show you the time and date of your last account activity.

If you want to know more about the last account activities, then you need to click in the details link and you will get the required information.

Here you will come to know about the IP address from where the account was accessed. So, it will become easier for you to trace the foul play, if there is any. If you find that there is an unusual IP address, then you can click on the alert button and every time you account is accessed from any IP other than yours, you will get the alert.

Revoke the permission of unwanted apps

Various websites and apps can ask for your permission regarding accessing your Gmail account. If you access a lot of such sites and apps, then they can get access to your Gmail account long after you have stopped using them. In order to check that, you need to open the ‘account settings’ page on Google, then you need to link the edit link.

When you enter your password, you will get to see the names of the sites and apps which have access to your account.

If you do not want to use that app or website anymore, then you can click the revoke access link and remove them  from access list.

Never share personal data in Google profile

If you check the Google Dashboard, then you will find out how much Google knows about you. In order to find that, you need to click the ‘visit the previous version of the Google accounts screen’ link and you will get this link from the account setting page.

From here you will come to know about the information which you are sharing with the internet and other Google users. If you do not want to share a specific data, then you can protect that data.
This is the three ways which will help you to protect your Google account. With the help of these simple and quick steps you will be able to make sure that your account is completely secure. Knowing about them will also help you to manage your account in a better and more convenient way.
Want more security? – Setup Google’s 2 – Step verification.

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