Equip yourself and your team to ensure you are cyber safe at all times in the workplace with these 10 tips.
- Boost your network security: Make sure that you always have a secure connection to the internet so you can log in safely from anywhere.
- Password Protection: Create strong and unique passwords that are memorable but hard to guess. Always shave a combination of letters, numbers and symbols
- Make sure your work passwords are different to your personal ones: If your personal devices are hacked, this should not compromise your work cyber security. Always use different passwords for each and change these regularly .
- Use up-to-date and effective firewalls, anti-virus software and anti-spyware: Always use a firewall – an electronic barrier to your information systems blocking access which is unauthorised. Anti-virus software and anti-spyware boost this protection. Down load updates regularly to ensure you are protected
- Protect your mobile devices: These are as much of a threat as your work computer. Be careful when opening messages, do not reply to messages from strangers and only download authorised apps.
- Do not let your browser remember your log in details: Although it does take a bit longer to log in, always manually re-enter your details rather than letting the browser do it for you.
- Slow down – Never let implied urgency influence your careful review of an email or a pop-up on a website or on your computer.
- Be wary of links in emails – Curiosity leads to carelessness. If you don’t know what the email is about, clicking a link is a bad choice
- Don’t assume an email sender is legitimate – Email hijacking and spoofing is common. Taking over a person’s email accounts is common and once someone’s email account is compromised, all of that person’s contacts are likely to be preyed upon.
- Public Wi-fi: Be cautious using public Wi-Fi and do not use it to log in to work emails. If necessary hot spot off your mobile phone rather than use unsecured public WiFi.