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Be Best Practices A digital training brought to you by RSAT Security in partnership with Supreme Technologies Group. Digit Digital al Se Security y Training Topics Covered Week 5 Week 1 Social Media Introduction to Information Security
A digital training brought to you by RSAT Security in partnership with Supreme Technologies Group.
Week 1
Introduction to Information Security
Week 2
Responsible Organizations Use of Information
Week 3
Data Leakage & How to prevent it
Week 4
Responsible Use of the Internet – Protecting your identity
Week 5
Social Media
Week 6
Email and Website Best Practices
Week 7
Mobile Devices
Week 8
Clean Desk Principle
WEEK #5
Two of the big threats to you via social media:
With the amount of information stored and shared
ever. There’s no doubt social media has made the world a more connected place. In most cases, that’s a good
unprecedented access to people’s and business’
hackers and scammers get involved.
Tweets with the text “Don’t click,” followed by a link, propagated rapidly across thousands of Twitter accounts. When users clicked on the link and then on a seemingly innocent button on the target page, a tweet was sent from their accounts. That tweet included the text “Don’t click,” followed by the malicious link.
Social engineering is the art of manipulating people to give up confidential information. Criminals use social engineering tactics because it is usually easier to exploit your natural inclination to trust than it is to discover ways to hack your software.
1) Shut down unattended social media accounts
Idle social accounts can be the target of hackers, who could start posting fraudulent messages under your name. Knowing the account is unmonitored, once they gain control, they could send anything from false information that’s damaging to your business to virus-infected links that cause serious problems for followers. And you won’t even notice until your customers start coming to you for help.
2) Protect your password
name, child’s name, etc. as login passwords.
complex one, then use a password manager.
2FA is an extra layer of security used to make sure that people trying to gain access to an online account are who they say they
instead of immediately gaining access, they will be required to provide another piece of information.
This second factor could come from one of the following categories:
a password, answers to “secret questions” or a specific keystroke pattern.
possession, like a credit card, a smartphone, or a small hardware token.
include biometric pattern of a fingerprint, an iris scan, or a voice print.
Enable 2 factor authentication - Facebook.
Enable 2 factor authentication - Instagram.
3) Turn on login alerts If you enable this feature, you will be notified by e-mail if your account is accessed from a new device and/or location. So if it was not you accessing Facebook, i.e. if your account was hacked into somehow, you would be notified and could take immediate action.
with strong, up-to-date security software. If your computer or phone is infected with malicious software, other safeguards are of little help because you’ve given the criminals the key to all your online actions. Also be sure that any operating system updates are installed.
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