Achievement 2 by @ritatitus!! Basic security on steem!! Mentorship by @cryptokannon

Security generally reefers to protection - the activities involved in protecting anything against attack, danger or damage. In this contest, basic security on steam refers to how you can protect your steem account so that it is safe and difficult to attack, steal or hacked.

HAVE YOU RETRIEVED ALL YOUR KEYS ON STEEMIT?
To ensure that your steem account is safe, you cannot perform any action in your account without your keys, now how do you get your keys immediately you sign up, you are given your master password, the master password is then used to retrieve all the keys which include posting key, active key, owner key and memo key, after retrieving all the keys, the master password is saved and kept somewhere safe while those keys are used going forward so I can affirmatively answer yes that I have retrieved all my keys on steemit, com wallet and retrieved all my keys.

DO YOU KNOW EACH OF THESE KEYS FUNCTION AND RESTRICTION

Each of these keys is used to perform various function, below is the summary of their functions ,. 1 master password- master password is the password you get upon signing up and is used to generate all other keys, after that it is stored in a safe place and only be used when you are going through your account recovery. ii posting key- posting key is used to publish a post or comments, edit a post or comments, upvote or downvote, reteem content, follow people mute accounts, it is used to login into your steem account more often. III Active key- this is used to transfer tokens, power steem up or down, converting steem dollars vote for witness, place an order or an exchange, perform certain profile changes, publish a witness price feed. iv Owner key- owner key is used to reset all the keys inculding owner key, posting key and active key, recover your account, decline voting rights, it is most powerful key. v Memo key- memo key is used to send an encrypted message, view an encrypted message.

HOW DO YOU PLAN TO KEEP YOUR MASTER PASSWORD

It is very important to keep the master password safe because it is used to derive all keys for ones steem account and all of the tokens in it, Because of this, I plan to save my master password and keep it somewhere safe, I plan to store an offline in a digital offline storage such as a flash drive as well as a printed paper, and that I have already done.

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TRANSFER YOUR STEEM TOKEN TO ANOTHER STEEM USER ACCOUNT

I can easily transfer my steem token to another through the steps below- login to your steem account using your user name and posting key, click on your image at top right, click on wallet next to logout, it takes you to your steem wallet, sign in your username and active key and click login upon logging in,click on the drop down arrow close to steem and select transfer, see image below

then type in the username of the account user you are transferring to type in the amount and click next, see image below

and then ok to confirm the transaction.

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO POWER UP YOUR STEEM

steem can be converted to steem power in a process called power up, this is easily done from wallet environment too, when you click on the drop down arrow close to steem, you select power up then type in the amount and click power up; see image below

Then you type in amount; and click power up. See image below

I am grateful to @cyptokannon, @focusnow and @ngoenyi for their assistance to newbies