Hey everybody, this is your practical and protective YouTube expert Derral Eves.
Now I just spent a painstaking week trying to recover a YouTube Channel that was actually
compromised and let me tell you it was a real pain.
Seriously a real pain in my side.
Now I have a few important questions for you.
Do you actually use the same password for multiple websites?
Come on.
You know you do.
The next question, for your passwords are you using symbols, numbers and no keyword
patterns like 123 or abc?
Probably not.
Have you ever logged into your Google account or Gmail or your YouTube Channel from a public
computer?
Now some of you might do that on occasion.
Is your YouTube Channel really secure?
Now I’m not talking about secure passwords, I’m wondering if you actually added an extra
layer of security for your account.
If not or if you don’t know what I’m talking about then you literally need to watch this
video.
I’m going to show you actually how to strengthen your security with 2 step verification and
in this video I’m going to show you step by step of actually what you need to do to
literally add an extra layer of protection on your YouTube channel and your Google account
from bots and bad guys.
Stick around.
Derraleves.com.
The best way to secure your YouTube channel and your Google account is to set up 2 step
verification.
Now to do this you can either click on the link in the description below and it’s going
to take you to this page right here or what you’re able to do is actually login to Google
and once you are logged in, click on the upper right corner on your Avatar icon and then
come down right here to accounts.
We’ll go ahead and click that and then it’s going to pull all your account settings in
and what you can do is come right down here where it says two step verification and go
ahead and click this and it’s going to take you back to this page right here.
Then all we need to do is click on the big blue button that says start setup and it’s
going to ask you for a phone number that you can send the codes to.
Now this can be any type of phone number.
It doesn’t need to be a cell phone it just needs to be a phone where you can either receive
text messages or a voice call.
I’m going to go ahead and set up for SMS and we are going to go ahead and send codes.
Now google just sends you a text message if you set that option up to your phone number
with a code so go ahead and put the code in.
Once it’s in there make sure it’s 6 digits long and go ahead and click verify.
Now we move on to the next step.
Now this is for if you lose a phone you can actually access your account without sending
the codes and you can actually trust a physical computer so that’s what we are doing here
so go ahead and made sure this is clicked for trust a computer and hit next and the
next step is confirming that you’re turning on two step verification.Now we are going
to go ahead and discuss what I believe is the most important part of two step verification
and it’s the backup options.
If you look down below here, you can see that there are different backup options.
#1 is setting up a backup phone.
I would encourage you if you have a landline or another cell phone or your spouse has a
cell phone.
Attach that number.
You basically go through what we went through before.
You can either do it as a voice call or a SMS.
However there is another option that is really really powerful which is backup codes.
You can literally generate backup codes and what that does, let’s go ahead and show
backup codes right here and these codes can only be used once and then they check off
from there and you can generate more codes as you need to and if you want to print them,
you can print them, if you want to save them as a text file you can save them as a text
file or you can generate new codes.
Now the next tab is apps specific passwords so if we go ahead and click on this, these
are apps that are accessing your google account or your YouTube channel.
For this example, I’m going to show you how to attach the YouTube app so you don’t
necessarily need to login and do the two step verification so the first thing that we do
is come down to manage applications, specific passwords.
We have a little drop down menu so you can select the app or create and App name so this
one is YouTube and you can select the device that it’s actually on.
So I actually have an iPhone and I’m going to put iPhone here and then click generate.
Once we are here to generate it’s going to get you a new password, you don’t need
to memorize this, all you need to do is just copy and paste it or get into your mobile
phone and type it in and once you are done, you are done.
The great thing about this is let’s say that you switch phones, you can revoke the
phone that’s actually attached to your YouTube account by just clicking revok and it’s
done.
So let’s go ahead and go back.
Now let’s go ahead and click on this tab, registered computers.
Once we are here it shows you all the registered computers that are actually logged in that
use codes and if they hit trust this computer they would show up right here so you can literally
click this button to require a code so anytime this computer logs in it can require codes
or you can actually change the setting to other computers that are here all you need
to do is click those buttons.
Okay this last one is an advanced option and I wouldn’t set it up unless you know what
you are doing which is setting up a physical device security key.
Basically instead of once you start to sign in you can insert this key and it will verify
that you are who you are without sending the verification code.
This can only be used with Chrome and I played around with it and really pretty cool.
Seriously guys, take the time, don’t wait do it today.
Setup your two step verification on your Google and YouTube accounts.
Why you might ask?
Well because read the news every month, some big company or website out there is being
attacked and so your credentials right now are being stolen and by setting up two step
verification it give you an extra layer of protection.
Alright confession time.
I must admit something.
When I was actually a sophomore in High School back in 1990.
Yes, I’m that old.
I was actually able to access the school’s network and all the teachers computers because
the password wasn’t that secure.
Now I’m not going to go into detail but let’s just say I’m now rehabilitated.
I do good now.
I do good things.
So make sure you subscribe.
That’s a story for another time guys, sorry.