Back up notifications to a gmail account are flagged as Less secure?

[PeterBeVier]

Hi, I have set-up a scheduled regular back-up, and in order to get an email regarding back-up results to my Gmail address, I apparently had to allow "less Secure" access to my Google account? Is there something I did wrong? Is this because Paragon uses SMTP directly to send messages? Is there another way to do this that is "more secure"?

Thanks in advance for any helpful comments.

[KD KD]

No you did not do anything wrong. It is unclear to me why this happens. But in a world with ransomware and spear fishing and other types of attacks Google/gmail is paranoid about any app really other than their own. I also think it is something to do with their need to control everything and thus their profits. If they dont control it they are going to have a hissy fit. I have several apps that are insecure according to them. The only thing I can say is that if you are entering in your username and password in another app it means that app has the potential to glean that info . I use an account that I have created for that purpose. I would never use my main email for this. Create a toss away for this purpose. Then you could in that account auto forward it to your main account if you want to be notifyed in that main account.