3 tips for Securing your Google Account

You can make your Google account much more secure by adding a second device to your login process. This means even if someone finds out your password they still need access to your smartphone in order to be able to access your account. We step through: Changing your password Adding 2 step authentication with SMS […]
Last updated: October 14, 2015

You can make your Google account much more secure by adding a second device to your login process. This means even if someone finds out your password they still need access to your smartphone in order to be able to access your account.

We step through:

  1. Changing your password
  2. Adding 2 step authentication with SMS
  3. Adding 2 step authentication with Google Authenticator app on your phone

Also we cover the scenarios when your phone is dead, lost or stolen and how to get specific app passwords for applications where 2 step authentication is not supported.

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Duncan Isaksen-Loxton

Educated as a web developer, with over 20 years of internet based work and experience, Duncan is a Google Workspace Certified Collaboration Engineer and a WordPress expert.
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