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Welcome to December! The featured image is just a little wishful thinking showing our snowfall from seven years ago. This last month of the year and semester is already well along, this being the second week as you read this (or later). This newsletter will be short and to the point. We have two topics to discuss and we’ll cover them quickly, as I know everyone is busy. The first topic is international travel and how the college will handle this moving forward. You probably already guessed the second topic – cybersecurity awareness training. The deadline is now extended – please complete this as soon as possible.
Well, this has never happened before. This is the fifth year we’ve had a virtual scavenger hunt for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but the first year that NO ONE completed it. I’m positive there are a myriad number of factors contributing to this outcome.
No Cybersecurity Awareness Month would be complete without a discussion of phishing emails. Everyone needs to know how to spot these attacks and what to do with them once you suspect an email of being “phishy”. The task of spotting…
Welcome to week three of Cybersecurity Awareness Month for 2024. I hope everyone is progressing through the Virtual Scavenger Hunt. If you are not, then click the “Start Hunting!” button on the banner at the top right of this website…
We’ve talked about multifactor authentication a lot on this website. It gets mentioned every month in the newsletter wrap-up. We’ve discussed many different ways that multifactor or 2nd factor authentication can work. Last year for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we turned…
It’s time to put October into overdrive! We’ve already experienced Mountain Day. I hope it was fun and safe for everyone. We have Fall Break coming, but today, we start the celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. What does that entail? Almost four full weeks (not counting November 1st) of opportunities to raise the level of cybersecurity awareness of the community.
October Pre-Newsletter News
This is the pre-newsletter news for October. The full newsletter will post on Monday, October 7th. Welcome to October! Along with cooler temperatures, an upcoming fall break, and the start of the holiday season, October brings us Cybersecurity Awareness Month!…