Facebook Is Giving Users A Security Check-Up

However, Facebook reps clarified the two services are in the same family in terms of how they work by walking Facebook’s billions of users through all the feature options.

Users will start seeing a reminder about the Security Checkup at the top of News Feed sometime over the next several weeks. “We saw similar results of the initial testing of Security Checkup in May”. Facebook Privacy Checkup is a separate tool that was launched in September 2014 as a way to help users with the configuration of privacy settings. It’ll then prompt you to set up Login Alerts, which does what it sounds like: notify you when someone accesses your account from a new device.

Facebook looks to increase awareness of its security features through the latest announcement in the Facebook Newsroom, introducing the Security Checkup feature.

After that, you can look at tips for keeping a strong/unique password, which the company recommends not using anywhere else online or sharing with anyone. We’ll send you a notification or email alert if someone tries to log into your account from an unfamiliar device or browser. So says Melissa Luu-Van, product manager at Facebook. It lets users quickly evaluate their current security status and take appropriate action. Facebook has multiple partnerships with security vendors, including ESET, F-Secure and Trend Micro, for malware scanning.

If you’re particularly keen and don’t want to wait to be pestered by Facebook, you can start the security checkup process here. “So the controls in this iteration of Security Checkup were chosen because they require minimal effort from people and still have high impact for enhancing security”.