Welcome to Data Privacy Week! This week to concentrate on maintaining your digital and physical privacy is promoted by the National Cybersecurity Alliance, a non-profit organization with a mission to help everyone be more secure in our interconnected world. This is the promised additional article about privacy this month, in this case, specifically about privacy while using social media.
Welcome to the new year and new semester! I hope everyone’s holiday time was good, restful, and productive. With the spring semester here, the work begins anew in 2025. What better way to kick off the new year (cybersecurity-wise) than to celebrate Data Privacy Week? Data Privacy Week is January 27-31 this year. Look for a bonus article during that week addressing data privacy.
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…