Video 3

What you can do to keep your organization safe

This final video is the most important. It covers the three key areas to keep your organization's data safe.

The three biggest areas where you can protect your business

1. Software updates

• Run updates when your computer asks
• Or better still, get us to do the updates for you.

2. Passwords

• Don’t use obvious ones such as children’s names, pet names or birthdays. Avoid any personal information in a password
• Don’t ever give your password to anyone, including us
• Never write down passwords
• Use a unique password for each account
• Use a random password generator, or passphrases with upper-case and lower-case letters, and special characters
• Embrace multi-factor authentication
• Use a password manager

3. Awareness of social engineering

• Be aware of anyone trying to get personal information from you, especially by piecemeal
  
• Look carefully at emails that don’t feel right:
• The sender’s address
• The writing format isn’t consistent
• Spelling and grammar issues
• Link destination
• Attachments
• Logo
• Watch out for urgency, emotion, and unexpected money
• If you’re not sure – stop, think, check (Google for details or pick up the phone)

What if you fall victim to a scam?

• Don’t panic
• Did you give away a password? Change it immediately on any systems you’ve used it
• Did you download an unknown file? Disconnect your computer from the network and turn it off
• Get in touch with us. And explain what happened