Helping to keep yourselves safe on the interent

Here is an idea that you can share with your business, friends, and/or family to help keep everyone as safe as possible.

Subject: Keeping your work and personal data safe 

All our systems are increasingly under attack from growing hordes of bad actors (whom actively use automation to probe Everywhere/Everything).  There are some things we can all do to keep our data and identities safe from abuse, loss, and/or exposure.

A) Make sure that you are routinely restarting all your systems (phones, computers, tablets, etc.) at least once a week, so that the background patching can finish.  All patches require that the running software is stopped for the newer software to take its place. While some software can do this while we work, several key security sensitive parts can't do that without a full restart/reboot.

B) Make sure your Security Awareness training is complete, to help you keep clear of the ever-evolving scams facing us all, whether though work or personal communications, whether targeting the business or you personally. 

Your IT team is working all the time to make sure your systems and processes are as secure as they can get them. It is a never-ending game as the bad actors figure new ways to get at us and try to catch us in those slip ups in getting the safe things done in a timely manner. Please remember that just putting your device to sleep or closing your laptop is not restarting/rebooting your system.

As for all automation you may have setup, "Fire and Forget" is fine, provided you never actually forget. Check the automation regularly to ensure they are working.