I advise you secure your coins from day 1. It is best to learn how to parallel park before you are stuck in a city and have to do it right? Same goes for security. It is never too early to consider being secured, it can only be too late (after your funds are stolen). Securing steem is a little more complicated and I will do a follow up article specifically for how to secure your steem.

For now on steem NEVER give our your active or master key. You will want to store those keys offline as well. The biggest issue is that almost everyone uses steemit.com (or another web portal) as their wallet. Look for my follow up article on securing your steem account!