Keeping your data safe is a top priority. While we take a lot of steps to keep your Ads Creative Studio account secure, here are a few more ways you can protect your account.
To make sure your Ads Creative Studio account remains protected over time, Google may periodically suggest tailored recommendations through email updates and notifications in your account.
Protect your Google Account
Keep in mind that anyone with access to your Google Account can access your Ads Creative Studio account and look up your advertising data. To avoid unauthorized access, take steps to protect your Google Account.
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Turn on 2-Step Verification. This adds an extra security verification step when you sign in, which helps prevent potential attackers from accessing your account even if they have your password.
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Choose a strong, unique password. A strong password contains a combination of numbers, characters, and case-sensitive letters, so it can't be guessed easily. Don't use the same password for different websites.
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Keep your account recovery options up-to-date. To prevent getting locked out of your account, regularly check that your account recovery options are up-to-date with your latest devices and contact information.
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Scan your computer for malware. Keep your computer's antivirus protection up to date and periodically run a full system scan to detect and remove malware.
Protect your Ads Creative Studio account as an Administrator
Below are a few best practices for account administrators that can reduce the risk of your Ads Creative Studio account being compromised by unauthorized users.
- Require your users to turn on 2-Step Verification. This adds an extra security verification step when you sign in, which helps prevent potential attackers from accessing your account even if they have your password. Users who try to access your Ads Creative Studio account without first turning on 2-Step Verification will see a message prompting them to set up 2-Step Verification.
- Restrict the email domains your users can use. To make sure users from outside your organization don’t get invited to access your Ads Creative Studio account, add allowed email domains in your security settings.
- Don't share sign-in information among multiple users. If many people need to use your Ads Creative Studio account, don't have them share the same username and password. Instead, grant each person access to the Ads Creative Studio account, using their individual Google Account. Each Google Account can have direct access to up to 20 Ads Creative Studio accounts.
- Review who has access to your Ads Creative Studio account. Last but not least, you should regularly check on user access and permissions in your account. Remove inactive users and make sure users have the minimum access level needed.
Turn on 2-Step Verification for Ads Creative Studio
- Sign in to Ads Creative Studio.
- Click Settings
Access and security.
- Click Security settings.
- Click the Authentication method to expand the panel.
- You’ll have to do one of the following:
- Select 2-Step Verification.
- If the “2-Step Verification” option is disabled:
- Click the link to set up 2-Step Verification.
- Follow prompts on the screen to add your phone number, confirm that it works, and click Turn On to finish the setup. Once complete, you’ll see “2-Step Verification is ON”. You can now close this page.
- Navigate back to your Ads Creative Studio Account and refresh the page to unlock the setting.
- Select 2-Step Verification.
- Select the date you want the setting to become effective for your account’s users.
- Click Save.
Add allowed domains
When you add allowed domains to your account, only users from allowed domains can sign in to your account. For example, if you set “example.com” as the allowed email domain for your account, you'll be able to invite user@example.com to the account, but not user@gmail.com.
- Sign in to Ads Creative Studio.
- Click Settings
- Click Security settings.
- Click Allowed domains to expand the panel.
- Click Add Domain to add a domain to the list.
- Click the "x" symbol to the right of a domain to remove it.
- Click Save.
Remove inactive users
Remove access for users who have left your company or no longer work with your Ads Creative Studio account. Unless you remove these inactive users, they can still sign in to your account and make changes. Learn how to remove users from your account.
Grant the minimum access needed for each user
When you invite a new user, that user is assigned a specific access level. With different access levels, you can give users selective access to various tasks and features. For example, users with Admin access can invite new users into the account to make changes, while users with Edit access can't. Similarly, you can assign a “Read only” access to users who don't need to make changes to your account. Learn more about access levels in your Ads Creative Studio Account
Turn off 2-Step Verification for Ads Creative Studio
Google strongly encourages all users to use 2-Step Verification to log into their accounts. Using 2-Step Verification protects your account and sensitive data from attackers, even if they have your password. If you’d prefer not to protect your account, follow the instructions below.
- Sign in to Ads Creative Studio.
- Click Settings
- Along the top of the page, click Security settings.
- Click Authentication method to expand the panel.
- Set the authentication method to Standard.