Author: Dan Boyd

Director of Information Security with the Office of Information Technology at Berry College

January News from Information Security

Welcome to 2021! Let’s hope it goes better than 2020. Welcome back to campus. I hope everyone had a good holiday, stayed healthy, and is ready to charge through the spring semester. As you attempt to settle back in, I…

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December News from Information Security

Welcome to one of the strangest Decembers we’ve ever had here at Berry. It is certainly the strangest of my 30 years here. The students are gone, but not done. Finals loom for some of them, then almost two full…

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November News from Information Security

We did it! We made it through October and Cybersecurity Awareness Month. I want to thank everyone who read the weekly articles, checked out the posters, and participated in the Virtual Scavenger Hunt. I want to congratulate Hanna Popa for…

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CAM Week 4 – Security Awareness Training and The Future of Connected Devices

Welcome to week 4 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! This is it! This is the last week to participate in the Virtual Scavenger Hunt (VSH)! I hope you have all successfully advanced to the fourth and final week, but if not,…

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CAM Week 3 – Phishing and Healthcare Devices

Welcome to week 3 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! I hope you are all advancing in the Virtual Scavenger Hunt (VSH), but if not, there are some clues later in the article to help you along. If you haven’t yet started,…

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CAM Week 2 – MFA and Securing Devices

Multi-Factor Authentication and Securing Devices at Home and Work (or School) This week, as we did last week, we are covering two cybersecurity awareness topics. We’ll discuss securing devices at home and at work (or school) and we will cover…

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CAM Week1 – Passwords, Password Managers, and Protecting Connected Devices

Passwords and Password Managers & If You Connect It, Protect It Welcome to the first week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Each week we will discuss two primary topics. One of those topics will be the CAM 2020 “official” weekly topic…

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