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The Makings of a Successful Cybersecurity Awareness Program

The requirement for data security, IP protection and privacy policies should align with a training program that showcases the importance each role has to play in preventing cyberattacks.

Educating employees on common threats is imperative in order to successfully fight against malicious intent. Additionally, a comprehensive cybersecurity awareness training program not only lowers risks of security threats… it frees up the IT department’s time by avoiding cybersecurity breaches. Where time would have been spent on the defense of an attack, they can instead devote time to an offensive strategy through Penetration Testing or multiple other proven methods in which to decrease Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and issues.

When contemplating a cybersecurity awareness training program, you may consider your industry and company size for start. Next, consider the following topics in your cyber resilience training program:

1. Passwords, Access Privileges, and Secure Network Connections

Ensure a portion of your cybersecurity awareness curriculum trains employees on basics regarding passwords, access privileges, and the need for secure network connections. Several employees do not understand the implications of an insecure network connection and weak passwords.

Integrate these topics into your training to help:

Email and password security best practices
Why weak passwords are high risk
Job role access privileges
2. Social Engineering and Phishing

Phishing and social engineering try to steal sensitive information via email, chat, fake websites or other means. They’re generally successful due to their disguise as coming from a trustworthy source. Users can easily be tricked into providing access to passwords, credit card details, data or other divulging information.

Integrate these topics into your training to help:

Identifying and countering phishing scams
Spotting fake or suspicious web pages and software
Recognizing social engineering
Social engineering risks

3. Security for Devices

More employees now use their own mobile devices or computers; after all, we are in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) era. As a result, there are more entry points for threats when using these devices to connect to company networks and when accessing corporate data. For this, they must understand mobile device protection and security best practices.

No, it doesn't. When people providing files for download "SHOUT" about how those files are NOT infected, they are generally lying. If a reputable developer had hosted a file somewhere they wouldn't bother to shout about how it didn't have malware in it, in the unlikely event that a reputable developer's program set off a false positive on an antivirus the develoepr wouldn't post a warning saying "ignore your antivirus my file is safe", rather he would post a note like "Users with Example antivirus may find this file sets off a detection, I have contacted Example to report this as a false positive. Users seeing the file to be a virus should wait for the next set of definition updates from Example and then they should be able to download without problems.".

As for medifire itself, I wouldn't say it is an "unreputable" site, it has some problems with adverts however running an adblocker takes care of these, but it is a site to which anyone can upload anything (for private backups or for sharing with the world, I use it myself as a secondary online private backup for my less private files), so files hosted on it are as reputable or not as their uploader, in this case the uploader sounds suspicious.

Ah, and finally. As far as I know, Utopia has a data warehouse, a secure replacement for Google Drive. Pay attention : ubox

Hi all!

When hovering my mouse cursor over the download link at Spectrum Cable, it appears that the Anti-virus vendor F-Secure developed the said scanning software.

Regards

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/phishing tells about protecting against phishing.

Since phishing reaches you (or your employees) via e-mail you can't do much - apart from being careful when clicking on links in mails - except running anti-spam in your mail-server. But that's kind of impossible if you have, for example, a gmail.com or live.com address, since you don't own those servers

Also I want to admit that I am not an expert on this topic but what I think is that even though you have used VPN but if Paramount Pictures approaches your VPN host with legal notice or something, they can track your IP and they(VPN Host) have all your details.

That's why hackers use Socks proxies along with VPN, that way, not even VPN Host can track your IP down.

HTML is a language used to describe to a browser how to display text and other objects in a browser window. It is not a programming language. HTML works on a client computer (the system on which the page is being viewed).

PHP is a scripting language, and can be used to create web pages written in HTML. PHP runs on the server (the system from which the page comes), and is a full-fledged programming language

>Does php needs something to be protected?

That question doesn't exactly make sense. Langauges do not need 'protection.' The manner in which they are used can sometimes cause problems for the system on which they run, but that will in no way hurt the language itself.

The HTML of any web page can be viewed by right-clicking in a web page; the HTML created by PHP can be viewed by right clicking in a web page. PHP does nothing to prevent your HTML from being viewed. Once the HTML is on my computer, there is nothing that you can do to protect it from being viewed by someone that wants to see it.

Technology is continuously evolving as a result; software is sustained by ongoing updates and upgrades therefore when software doesn’t have updates to sustain it becomes outdated. Such outdated software is unmaintained and is unable to integrate with new applications, also it cannot run smoothly on new devices. Then there are various security risks because outdated software doesn’t have patches if vulnerabilities are found, and it can fall prey to far more advanced cyber-attacks.

At this moment, this seems to be the case for me. (Actually, for external I am using BitLocker + VeraCrypt containters for some files ).

Can you please tell me more about your second statement? Which security features would be broken exactly? BTW I am planning to use (strong) password only for BitLocker (or VeraCrypt, but I am inclining to give BitLocker a try at this moment, also partly because of compatibility).

And yeah, my HW support accelerated-AES natively. I would like to know how exactly can I measure eventual slowdown?

Do I understand correctly that only booting + operation with files (copying...) will be possibly slowed and I shouldn't expect any reduction in FPS or anything like that?

I am posting the results of VeraCrypt benchmark. It seems to be pretty fast, I assume it's going to be similar with BitLocker:

It’s the same as before like being mentioned in one of the comments above. However, before this, Whatsapp gave the option to opt-out from sharing your data to Facebook. This time, Whatsapp won’t give that option anymore. Your data will be shared with Facebook or they will delete your Whatsapp account. Either you share or you can leave.

Without knowing anything about the configuration it is difficult to give any clear advice.

If the user was the IT person it makes it a little more difficult as they would know local admin account information.

The software they are using is a remote desktop software that doesn't require permission to access, this could be Dameware, VNC, TeamViewer, or a host of other products.

Reloading the machine is probably the best answer.  A machine should be reloaded prior to a new user being assigned the machine, to prevent issues such as this one.

Best practice?

That's access control, firewalls and only allowing what ports you actually need. If it's on a LAN then netmask goes a long way to blocking folk on a LAN from connecting to the server.

Man thats a lot okay my recommendation would maybe look dumb but here its:

why use all of this? maybe try GIMP? (inside linux of course) and i know it going to take learning curve but i’m sure you going to like it (thats the dumb recommendation i said about, because most of people dont want to learn new apps)
About “digital services” you can use something like nextcloud or at least encrypt your stuff before upload and give a try to protonmail or tutanota for your email address
You can use Instagram, Tumblr, Deviantart, Pixiv inside harden browser like firefox or so
about the apps on your devices you can use it’s web version or instead of youtube use invidious or newpipe like try to use the alts and if there is none then try use its web app (inside harden browser)
at the end, nothing is 100% nothing is perfect