Here Are the Best Account Security Methods, According to Google

Everywhere you turn, someone is handing out advice about account security and privacy. And while it never hurts to be reminded about all the ways you can protect your critical data, have you topped to wonder whether any of the various security measures you’re taking are actually effective?

Google did, and it teamed up with researchers from New York University and the University of California, San Diego to analyze more than 350,000 different account-hijacking attempts and see how well some of its most basic account-security suggestions protected users’ accounts. As it turns out, even the most basic of techniques is—to put it in Pokémon terms—super-effective!