It’s that time of year again. Time to start preparing for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month coming up in October. Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart is the theme again this year. Be a Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion for your business, your community and your family.
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Are You Cyber Smart 2021? – Ep 318
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[10:10] Note from Erik Decker, Chief Security and Privacy Officer at the University of Chicago School of Medicine and the Health Sector Coordinating Council Co-Lead of the 405(d) Task Group that developed the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) tool to help the healthcare industry follow solid cybersecurity practices:In one episode we were discussing how someone got into an account that even had MFA enabled. Neither of us went down the rabbit hole for how that could happen. Well, our friend Erik Decker sent in an answer to share with everyone.
1) spoofed email that looked a LOT like the prod account and the person was engaging in a dialogue
2) They have o365 with MFA on the web portion but keep legacy authentication enabled on the tenant, which lets you connect with IMAP in the back end without 2FA. (This is such a common mistake and people don’t know it exists).
See? I listen to your podcasts. 🙂
Are You Cyber Smart 2021
How to Get Involved in Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021
Be A Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion
All three of our entities have been Champions again this year as we have in previous years. All you have to do is register and learn about what is available to use. Everyone should use these tools and campaigns to promote cybersecurity awareness in their communities. We discussed it many times how great it is to have this stuff built for you and planned out. You just execute. They even have sample social media posts, graphics, and emails to your team.
Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart is their ongoing theme again this year. Each week gets a focus campaign.
Cybersecurity Resources Library – Stay Safe Online
Last year, it drove us nuts to try to do something each week following the campaigns. We are not that organized and strict with our discussions. We will be doing our own thing, but each week will be different discussions that will give you information and tools to use for educating yourself and your team about cybersecurity.
We will be bringing in a special guest from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who will explain to us a lot of the things that CISA does to help health care specifically. Plus, we have resources planned by the 405(d) Task Group in conjunction with other activities going on throughout the month.
[22:12] Weekly campaigns for 2021
October 4 – 8 (Week 1) – Be Cyber Smart We can’t talk enough about basic cyhy is everyone’s responsibility today: Own Your Role in Cybersecurity: Start with the Basics
October 11 – 15 (Week 2) – Fight the Phish. We know this is huge. There are all kinds of stats, stories, etc. to make this topic like “Old Gregg with some Bailey’s,”, for those of you who know what I am talking about. That is fighting the phish!
October 18 – 22 (Week 3) – Explore. Experience. Share. This one is all about getting people interested in a cybersecurity career, from the National Institute for Cybersecurity Education (NICE).
October 25 – 29 (Week 4) – Cybersecurity First. There is always a week about cybersecurity with connected devices. I like this one because it points out you should think about cybersecurity FIRST before connecting devices.
So, check out the NCAM site to find out how you can be a Cyebrsecurity Awareness Month Champion. Then download the toolkit and start preparing how you can educate your staff, community and family on being cyber aware. Like it or not, we all are a part of cybersecurity. Do your part. #BeCyberSmart!
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