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What to expect from your Google Account Security

Google Account Security has been central to many of the things I have been doing of late so it was a no-brainer when it came to picking a topic to write an article for the Cyber-security awareness month. Knowledge about your Google Account’s security is important as it helps you to understand how it works and also for the fact that it is the user's responsibility to ensure the security of their Google accounts. Presently, Google offers four (4) levels of account security on their accounts and this article presents an overview of the details of those four levels and explains how you can best decide on the level of security you require for your account and ways to manage the various security options.  This understanding of the security levels is also very important from the account recovery perspective as the Google user-verification system looks to verify user ownership beyond all reasonable doubts using the most secure process based on the highest security level enabled on that acc