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Develop ‘Security Champions’ For Successful Enterprise Security Scalability

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What steps have you taken to create an internal team of security champions to support your security strategy? The idea is to create “front-line support”.

Ian Amit writes, “These advocates know their businesses better than any of my security engineers could, and they are deeply embedded in their organization’s culture. And, as a result, they can provide the best context for security decisions. Our role is to equip them with our services and security expertise.”

Make your employees security assets, rather than security liabilities.

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Is Your Company Secure?

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With over 250,000 new malware samples being created and spread every day, Results Matter Cloud Services helps keep your organization secure 24/7. Microsoft 365 and the intelligent cloud can help you protect, detect and respond to today’s modern security landscape.

As a fully integrated, end-to-end solution, Microsoft 365 helps you address new risks and opportunities and drive digital transformation to empower everyone from the executive office to first-line workers. More information is in the infographic below.

Beyond Microsoft 365 we also have services that address compromised credentials on the dark web. What is the Dark Web? Learn more here.

Contact us today to learn more about cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, or the Dark Web.

Is your company secure?

 

Cyber Security Awareness Month – Week 2, Buy Safe

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The theme for week 2 was Buy Secure. It is important to buy devices and applications from suppliers that are reptubable. It is important to figure out if you can trust the app developer and to have a process for evaluating applications.  Learn more at Stay Safe Online or Get Cyber Safe from the Government of Canada.
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October Is Cyber Security Awareness Month

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The theme for week 1 was cyber security is our shared responsibility. Bringing this topic up more right can have a big payoff. It is easy to get complacent with the Facebook breach from last week for example. We have to keep at and be consistent in our message of the sensible things we can all do to be more secure. Learn more at https://staysafeonline.org/.
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Passwords Must Be Unique For Each Website or App – MyFitnessPal

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The MyFitnessPal app suffers a data breach. What does that have to do with your business? You need to make sure you continue to educate your work team about the importance of having different passwords for accounts you use for work vs accounts you use personally.  If a member of your team used the same password to access MyFitnessPal as is used to access websites related to work, you could be at increased risk.

The 3 things you need to do:

  1. Discuss passwords with your team. Moving from awareness to action improves when you can make it real. This is real.
  2. Have a common sense security policy that is understood, implemented and test it. Moving to compliance starts with education and repeat offenders need to be treated seriously.
  3. Review your security strategy. If you don’t have a strategy for cyber security you will only be able to react. Being proactive gives you more options.

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How Facebook’s Annual “Hacktober” Campaign Promotes Cybersecurity to Employees | hbr.org

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With a month of security competitions, games, and T-shirts. “Build and maintain a security conscious culture”.

Not only will it help train your employees on cyber security but it will also help with employee engagement. Engaged employee = more productivity. 

Most importantly, use an approach that fits your culture, recognize and reward engagement, run real-world security tests, bring people together, and keep it fun. See how Facebook does it.

Source: How Facebook’s Annual “Hacktober” Campaign Promotes Cybersecurity to Employees

5 Ways To Improve Your Small Business Cybersecurity

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Half of all small businesses experience a cyber attack. Use the 5 tips in this article to improve your business’s cybersecurity and protect yourself from threats.

The five tips are train employees, update computers, create backups, limit access, and secure your wi-fi.

Read the full article at Forbes.com.

Source: 5 Ways To Improve Your Small Business Cybersecurity

A fake Netflix email wants users’ billing information — don’t click it – National | Globalnews.ca

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Phishing emails are being sent to Netflix users worldwide. Do NOT click the link in the email. 

Instead, go to the company website and login. 

Source: A fake Netflix email wants users’ billing information — don’t click it – National | Globalnews.ca

Understand cyber security, don’t fear it, says NCSC head

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The head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has urged organisations to ensure they understand cyber risks as a survey reveals mid-sized firms have inadequate cyber protection.  MSP in the UK warning that investments in a security and information event management (Siem) system, without dedicated team to respond is inadequate.

Source: Understand cyber security, don’t fear it, says NCSC head

Cybersecurity is dead – long live cyber awareness | CSO Online

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Consider shifting the focus from exclusively on prevention and include a focus on recovery.

Ask youself, and your IT department:

  1. If you were hacked, what would you do?
  2. How frequently is your data backed up?
  3. Will you pay the ransom?
  4. What about the companies and people you work with?
  5. What’s your communication plan?

Read the full article from the link below.

Source: Cybersecurity is dead – long live cyber awareness | CSO Online