{"id":8369,"date":"2024-10-29T20:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2024-10-29T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:42:31","slug":"how-to-make-my-gov-more-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/how-to-make-my-gov-more-secure","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO MAKE MY.GOV MORE SECURE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DISABLE USERNAME SIGN IN WITH EMAIL or PHONE NUMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Account Settings &gt; Sign in Settings &gt; Username<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DISABLE email as a username option, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DISABLE phone number as a username option<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now only sign in with your myGov username<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TURN ON MYGOV CODE GENERATOR APP FOR 2FA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Account Settings &gt; Sign in Settings &gt; 2 factor authentication<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENABLE myGov Code Generator App and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DISABLE Get a code by SMS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Never use the same password for anything else<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use a password manager to generate and save a complex password<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENABLE PASSKEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Account Settings &gt; Sign in Settings &gt; Passkeys<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Store in your password manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not sign in with your password in future, only your passkey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD AND ENABLE THE MyGovID APP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Download the MyGovID app and follow the steps to upgrade security to Strong<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link with your My.Gov account<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISABLE USERNAME SIGN IN WITH EMAIL or PHONE NUMBER Account Settings &gt; Sign in Settings &gt; Username DISABLE email as a username option, and DISABLE phone number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8370,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}