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October is Cyber Security Awareness Month
This month we are participating in Cyber Security Awareness Month. We hope our campaign helps you better understand cyber threats and the simple steps you can take to minimize your risk.
Simple things like:
- Knowing how to spot suspicious emails
- Creating secure passwords
- Keeping your computers and mobile devices safe
- Recognizing which websites may be risky
Today鈥檚 spotlight is on cyber security. Keep reading for some eye-opening stats and tips on how to stay safe online.
The Impact of Data Breaches
础听data breach聽is when sensitive, protected or confidential聽data聽has potentially been viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so (). This may result in damage to reputation and trust, and can lead to financial loss and identity theft.
- are lost or stolen every minute. That’s 5,191,030 in one day.
- Trend Micro聽estimates that the WannaCry ransomware attack of May 2017, around the world and caused financial and economic losses of up to $4 billion.
- Recently Yahoo reported that a data breach of 2013
- 聽(so far), include E-Sports Entertainment and Xbox,聽 fast food chains Arby’s and Chipotle, retailers Saks Fifth Avenue and K-Mart, and Equifax.
- The Equifax data breach affected
- Help protect yourself from data breaches is by聽safeguarding your password.
Password Security and Why it Matters
In our modern, digital lives, we manage numerous accounts and passwords.聽Passwords can be compromised in a variety of ways. We need to know how to best keep them safe.
- involve a weak or stolen password.
- More than in 2016, with 8.2 million passwords being stolen every day (that’s聽 about 95 every second!)
- used 10 million passwords leaked in data breaches to compile a list of the most popular ones.聽They include variations of: 1234
- 56, qwerty, password and google.
- According to Keeper, with almost one in five choosing 123456.
- Use a聽to create strong passwords, track them and avoid duplication.
- Keep your password safe and secure with these 5 tips.
Safeguard your Email
Email is a popular attack vector for cyber criminals who use it to send out malware and to trick recipients into revealing sensitive information.
According to the :
- 156 million phishing emails are sent everyday
- 16 million of those (about 10%) make it through spam filters
- 8 million are opened by the end user
- 800,000 of phishing emails that are opened, lure someone into clicking on a link
- 80,000 people fall for an email scam everyday and share personal information
At 杏吧原创 we block over 85% of all inbound email as spam or viruses. Here’s how to recognize a聽phishing attempt.
Things We Thought you Should Know
1. 杏吧原创 Has a Security Operations Centre (SOC)
A SOC is a centralized unit that deals with security issues. And we have a brand new one in ITS! Its main functions are:
- Security incident and event management
- Campus network infrastructure monitoring, incident and work order management
- Technical support for security and network operations
2. Instructional Media Services (IMS) Knowledge Base
IMS recently released an聽Online Help Centre for Classroom Technology聽to help instructors with technology in the classrooms and around campus. Congrats on this great new resource!
3. OneDrive Cloud Storage
All 杏吧原创 staff and faculty have access to 1TB of cloud storage through OneDrive for Business. Backup your files to the cloud and easily share documents with your team…more.
4. 杏吧原创 E-commerce
If you need to accept聽payments for a 杏吧原创 event – conference, lecture series, workshop – check out聽杏吧原创’s E-commerce payment service. This in-house, online service is easy to use and is PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliant.
5. Site Licensed Software聽
ITS has made special purchase arrangements for a number of software packages (such as SPSS, MatLab and Office 365). Visit the ITS site to see what is聽available through the site licensed software program.
6. Cyber Security Tips
Follow our cyber security campaign throughout October for tips on staying safe online.