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#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth Tip of the Day:

Start an email account where employees can send their questions on any and all things cybersecurity provides a good start and has multiple benefits. 👇

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#NCSAM Tip of the Day:

Use a fake security question. It’s important to not use common questions that anyone can find out by looking into your past history. Also, get creative with it, treat security answers like passwords—the more obscure, the better.

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#NCSAM Tip of the Day:

Where should you use MFA?
1. On accounts with your financial info like banks, or online stores
2. On accounts with personal info, like social media
3. On accounts with info you use for work

TLDR: Use MFA everywhere!

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Phishing attacks use email or malicious websites to infect your machine with malware and viruses to collect personal and financial information.
Cybercriminals attempt to lure users to click on a link or open an attachment that infects their computers, creating vulnerabilities for criminals to use to attack.
Phishing emails may appear to come from a real
financial institution, e-commerce site, government agency, or any other service, business, or individual. The email may also request personal information such as account numbers, passwords, or Social Security numbers.
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Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office Seizes Two Domain Names Purporting to be Websites of Biotechnology Companies Developing Treatments for Covid-19 #becybersmart | justice.gov/usao-md/pr/mar…
The FBI, HHS-OIG, and CMS have received complaints of scammers using the public’s interest in COVID-19 vaccines to obtain personally identifiable information (PII) and money through various schemes. #becybersmart fbi.gov/news/pressrel/…
RT @FlashpointIntel "As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its enormous impact worldwide, demand for malicious and illicit goods, services, and data has reached new peak highs across dark web marketplaces (DWMs)." #BeSafeOutThere | flashpoint-intel.com/blog/dark-web-… /
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Our Cyber security awareness seminar is going great!

@adeboyeBGO has been talking about 'Protecting privacy and sensitive data in healthcare'

He has emphasised the need to create good cyber security culture and attitude in employees, over technical fixes

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Since research shows that carelessness and human error leads to many breaches, there is need to enlighten employees - including management.

He also stresses the need to protect patient privacy as it is a right of every citizen.

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Cyber security regulation should not be treated as checklists to be completed.

In order to ensure laws are effective, defaulters must be held accountable. In some cases, organisations are taken to court.

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It's October! And that means it's
CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH
🕵️#BeCyberSmart

A #CyberAware Poem

Hard to believe it is the 17th time
October is chosen to address risk of cyber crime
Despite all the tech thrown at securing us online
We are as insecure as ever
Tech can't solve human problems, without in some part leveraging human solutions. Changes to how we use passwords, has exacerbated issues associated with human tendencies and rather than solve problems, they created new and more complex problems.
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Complexity breeds vulnerabilities as systems become more difficult to understand and patch together. This is where criminals thrive. And where companies struggle to manage the risk and the cost of identifying when these vulnerabilities are exposed and result in a #databreach
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