Welcome to Week 1 of the CAM 2024 Virtual Scavenger Hunt!

Posted by Dan Boyd Posted on October 7, 2024

To participate, simply find and fill in the answers to the questions below and submit the form. Your entry will be registered, you’ll get an email confirming your entry and reminding you of your answers, and you will be eligible for the first weekly drawing.

The email will explain how to advance to week 2 once the second week’s page is available, which will be at 8:00 AM on Monday, October 14th.

All of the questions this first week are about strong passwords and password managers. See if you can find all the answers and move to the next level of the scavenger hunt. Good luck!

    Every year, the National Cybersecurity Alliance (who sponsors and coordinates Cybersecurity Awareness Month), conducts a survey about how people interact with technology, particularly in regards to security and privacy. Their findings are published in their Oh Behave! report. According to their 2023 report, what percentage of respondents to the survey were familiar with multifactor authentication? Answer with just the percentage in the blank below.

    The Berry College Office of Information Technology (OIT) encourages everyone to adopt a password manager and use it to manage all of their various accounts. Password managers enable users to use long, hard to crack, and unique passwords for every account they have. On the Cybersecurity News & Alerts site is a Quick Info page on password managers. Based on the Quick Info article, can you store other important and sensitive information like prescription numbers and account numbers in a password manager? Yes or No?

    Back to the Oh Behave! report from the first question - After receiving cybersecurity training, what percentage of respondents to the survey began storing their passwords in a password manager like LastPass, 1Password, iCloud or another application? Answer with just the percentage in the blank below. UPDATE: The NCA has updated their page and you can no longer access this report to obtain this clue without jumping through some major hoops, so here is the answer to this question - 33

    The Cybersecurity News & Alerts site also has a Quick Info page on good password guidelines. According to the article, good passwords are actually "passphrases" that are easy to _______________.

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