SECURE your gmail account

Gmail is used by people all around the globe and it is one of the best email service in terms of customer support, security, user interface and the amount of storage space provided to a user. Google takes extra care when it comes to security and there are practically no loopholes in gmail when it comes to security of it's users. But still accounts of people get hacked. The reason for accounts being hacked is not weak security by google but a lack of knowledge about E-Mail Security amongst users. I'll like to suggest some tips which can increase the security of gmail to many folds: 

Keep a Strong Password

The first step to increase security of your account is to make sure that you keep a good strong password which is not easy to guess by anyone. A good password contains following things:

• Above 8 characters long.
• Combination of numbers and words.
• Shift keys(!@#$%^&..) provide an increased level of security.
• A combination of words with caps lock on and off.

Whereas a bad password is the one:

• Which is the same as username.
• Which is easily guessable by people who know you, like your birth date, school name, mothers name etc.
• Which is very short.

Give a Recovery E-Mail of Which You Have an Access

While making a gmail account, we are asked to give recovery email address where gmail can contact us if there is some problem with our account. Many people give recovery email address of which they do not have access or the recovery email address is of sites which provide temporary email address like yopmail.com. Giving such email addresses is a bad practice as this can land you up in a problem when gmail has to contact you for security issues.

Enable 2-Step Verification

2-Step Verification is one of the best features of gmail and this which is not breakable by anyone till date. This features increases security of our account many folds. Once you activate 2-Step Verification on your gmail account, when you enter the password in your gmail account then gmail sends you a unique code on your phone which you have to enter in the login screen. After entering that unique code only you are allowed to access your gmail. So, if by any chance if someone manages to get your password, still he'll be unable to login if you have 2-Step Verification Enabled. To enable this feature in your account go to account setting and then security.