2.7 Security

In this section, you can check about your security issues and set up some security configurations

Security Checkup

At the main Google Account page, click the “Security” at the left menu panel, then select the first sector titled “We keep your account protected”. It will direct you to Security Checkup page. If Google found any security issue, the link topic may change to "Security issues found" and it redirect you to the same page.

This is your security summarized page which contains all security related information and security issued if any. There is something interesting in this page as follows:

• • Your devices: This section is the detail of your devices that logged in with your Google account. If you have two android devices, and you also logged in via website, then you may see totally three signed-in devices. The device that open this page is stated as “This device” and you cannot anything. For the other devices, you can force sign-out. If you found some unknown devices, you can click “Don’t recognize this device” and the system will ask you to change password (if you would like to change it, please change it via the http://home.au.edu or your password will not be synchronized).

  • Recent security events: This section displays your security related activities recently.

  • 2-Step verification: This section shows the status of your 2-Step verification and settings. The university allow everyone to use 2-Step verification for more security.

  • Third-party access: This section displays the third-party applications that you allow to use your Google account for its user account. This is like Facebook application permission. If you do not want to use any application anymore, please remove them from the list.

Signing in to Google

The second section of the security main page is about your password status and settings. You can setup your 2-Step verification in this section. There are a lot more detail about 2-Step verifications and they are not included in this document. However, its basic setting is not complicated, you just setup your mobile phone number and that is all.

The App Password is a new authentication scheme announced by Google to its third-party as well as in-house application. However, it is application-specific setting so if some of your applications required this setting, you can do so

Recovery Email

If there is anything happen on your Google account, it will try to reach you via the Recovery Emails. Add your secondary or alternative emails to prevent unwilling situations. By the way, as your account is under the university responsible, Google will send Email to the university administrator if it found some suspicious situation, and if your account has been suspended, the university administrator can coordinate with Google support to investigate the case to help you.

Password Manager

If you ever allow any Google application to save your passwords, those saved passwords are kept in Google Password Manager. This is a free service anyway, but you need to login to the websites or applications via Google application only such as Chrome or any android device that link to your account. You can edit or delete it as you decide.