Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October 2024

Multi-Factor Authentication is a step beyond simply using a password to access a secure website or app.
After successfully entering the user name and password, a code is sent to your phone or email to confirm you, not someone else, entered your user name and password.
Some multi-factor authentications may use facial recognition or other bio-metric methods, or a key card containing your authentication.
Using multi-factor authentication is not a failsafe method but it is a step in the right direction to securing your information.

You Are Your Best Defense against Phishing
Almost all cybercriminals gain access to networks and computers through someone providing information to Phishing.

• So what is Phishing?
• How can you recognize Phishing?
• What to do when you get Phished

Phishing is when a cybercriminal claims they are a trusted individual or company, asks you to provide information so they can use it for criminal activity.

Phishing might look like it's from your boss, a co-worker, a trusted company or individual such as Norton, McAfee, Microsoft, your bank or a government official.

Phishing might come to you as an email, a phone call, text message or pop-up on your screen.

Phishing usually asks you to click on a link, download something, call a phone number or answer the email or text message.

Phishing is done by "professional criminals"; they know what they are doing, and how to get you to do what they want.

Phishing uses "Social Engineering". We have been taught to respond in certain ways to certain events, and cyber-criminals use this against us.

"I Know" updates can be aggravating - they take up your time and always seem to happen when you are in the middle of something.

But Security Updates are for your own good, and the good of others.

There are a lot of different security updates:

• Microsoft Windows updates, Apple updates, Android updates
• Microsoft software updates, Office
• Security software updates, Anti-Malware and Antivirus
• Other software updates, Web Browsers
• Manufactor Firmware and Driver updates, computers,
• Modem/Router Firmware updates