How to Use Advanced Security Settings on Facebook

Facebook takes a number of steps behind-the-scenes to keep the site secure. Facebook also provides tools that people can use to protect their accounts and online reputations. Those tools include options for secure browsing, one-time passwords, single sign-on, the ability to monitor account activities, login approvals, the ability to remotely end account activity, and social authentication.

Using secure browsing Secure browsing allows you to use Facebook safely in public hot spots. When you shop online, your web browser uses some very strong encryption to transmit data. Encryption is a technique used to scramble data that you don’t want anyone else to see.

The SSL protocol encrypts the transmission of data and is called using https or secure browsing. Secure browsing is an advanced setting on Facebook that you can configure. Using https to connect to Facebook does several important things. First, on an open wireless network, it prevents attackers from stealing your Facebook network connection or eavesdropping on your communication. It also uses certificate verification to make sure that if your browser says you’re connected to Facebook, you really are connected to Facebook and not an imposter website pretending to be Facebook.
 

To enable https, go to the ACCOUNT SECURITY section of your Facebook ACCOUNT SETTINGS and tell Facebook to BROWSE FACEBOOK ON A SECURE CONNECTION (HTTPS) WHENEVER POSSIBLE.

How can you tell that https is working?  

When SSL is in use, you will know that your communication between websites is secure because you’ll see an “https” at the beginning of the URL. You’ll also see a padlock. Look for that padlock icon on your web browser. If you see the padlock, your secure browsing setting is locked up!