Now, Gmail Experience Becomes Safer

Now, Gmail Experience Becomes Safer

If you had opened Gmail on Thursday, you may have been curious about the red padlock appearing while typing in corporate or lesser-known email IDs. You’d have also seen an alert not to send personal information to that ID as that domain’s servers may not be encrypted.

Gmail rolled out most of these security features soon after their ‘safer internet day’ update, which allowed users to get 2GB upgrade to their drive storage on completing a security checklist by Thursday.

It also added a lot of features that allowed people to identify messages from authentic users or mails from strangers masquerading as ‘official mail’.

What does this mean for users? It will help you identify users who mail you often,  and will safeguard you from unknown users mailing you from seemingly authentic mail IDs that resemble those of government/ corporate ids. It allows users to know if the data shared with you from the sender is secure by employing TLS (Transport Layer Security), which provides an enhanced level of encryption-message to message, user to user security. According to Google search trends over the previous year, searches about two-factor authentication on Google India had risen 97%.