In today’s world, it’s essential to recognize the importance of safeguarding your personal information. From the moment you wake up and check your smartphone to the minute you stream your favorite show or make an online purchase, your every digital move leaves a trail of data breadcrumbs. But, you have the power to take charge of your data privacy. You can start by taking part in Data Privacy Week, sponsored by the National Cybersecurity Alliance.
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405(d) Tip of the Week
[09:15] Many organizations these days are taking advantage of cyber insurance coverage to help protect their business from losses due to cyber attacks. It is becoming harder to get cyber insurance without having to prove you have at least a minimum level of security controls in place.HHS 405d has released implementation tips for small entities and medium or large entities that explains what cyber insurance is, why it is important, the kind of thing you should consider when you’re looking into it, questions you should ask, etc.
Cyber Insurance for Small Healthcare Organizations
Cyber Insurance for Medium/large-sized Healthcare Organizations
HICP Cybersecurity Practice #10 Updates
Privacy Week 2024
[11:41] Your data is valuable. It might be surprising to you just how much data you are generating on a daily basis. From your online activity and purchases to your health data to your physical location to the apps you have on your tablets and smartphones, all of that is generating data constantly. Even though you can’t control all the data that is collected about you and your activities, you do have a right to data privacy.Data Privacy Week is Jan 21 – Jan 27, 2024. The National Cybersecurity Alliance (the same folks who do Cybersecurity Awareness Month each year in October) has released resources that give you ways to manage your personal and business information and make decisions about who can see or who it is shared with. They have events, webinars, posters, videos, training tools, tips to manage your privacy settings, etc.
So, check out the links below and download the free resources from the National Cybersecurity Alliance and take part in Data Privacy Week. Sign up to become a Data Privacy Champion in your organization.
Also, these resources don’t expire and the tips about protecting your data don’t expire. So, don’t just use these resources for this one Data Privacy Week, use them throughout the year to help keep data privacy at the forefront of everyone’s mind. As they say in marketing, if people aren’t sick of hearing the message, then they haven’t heard it at all.
Data Privacy Week – National Cybersecurity Alliance
How to Be an Online Privacy Snob – National Cybersecurity Alliance
Don’t Open That Resume
[28:25] It’s getting really tough these days to identify social engineering attack threats. A new attack, discovered by Proofpoint, is targeting job recruiters by first sending an email pretending to be someone interested in a job. Once the recruiter replies to the email, the attacker sends the recruiter an email with a link to a website to “download their resume”. That’s where it goes off the rails. The website contains malicious code that does a number of things, but basically the attacker is inside the recruiters website, profiling the network, downloading things, etc.AI concepts continue to grow for the good guys and bad guys. Hackers use AI to help them craft sophisticated emails for phishing attacks, find ways around certain security protections, create advanced social engineering scams, look for ways to get their malicious scripts to run on your machine, ways to get all kinds of things to happen to attack you.
Security is put in place for a reason. It may not be convenient, but it is necessary. Same goes for data privacy. Data is very valuable to other businesses as well as hackers. Unfortunately, people don’t value their own data as much as the hackers do. Train yourself and your staff on how to protect who they share their data with and to understand that there is a trade-off between convenience and privacy.
Everyone has a right to data privacy. Learn how to protect your privacy online and with some of the repeatable behaviors from the National Data Privacy Week resources. After all, your data is valuable and you deserve to have a say in how it is used. Become a privacy snob, not a privacy slob.
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