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Business Continuity – Processing Payments Remotely

There is no better time than now to confirm which merchants are collecting payments, and how that is being done, to ensure their efforts to provide customer service are not leaving your organization exposed.

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Incident Response: Key Players in a Tabletop Exercise

Gathering everyone in one room for a discussion-based tabletop exercise can be a good way to test your plan and verify that all appropriate staff members understand their individual roles and responsibilities.

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To Pay or Not to Pay? Ransomware Attacks Targeting Cities and Universities

Is your organization an easy target for ransomware? If your systems were attacked, are you confident you could restore all data and services in a timely manner?

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Cybersecurity Checklist

Following these cybersecurity best practices can significantly reduce the risk of becoming a victim of a security breach.

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MFA on Campus

An analysis of recent breaches will show that if there had been additional authentication factors, many of the breaches probably wouldn’t have happened.

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Social Media – Defining Acceptable Use on Campus

Should employees be banned from accessing social media sites while at work? Learn social media policy best practices.

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NIST SP 800-171 Framework Series: Access Control

Who has access, or rather who should have access, to your organizational systems and data? Organizations that handle personally identifiable information or other sensitive information types must take extra steps to ensure access to that information is closely controlled.

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Visitor Management

Social engineering attacks target unsuspecting staff and continue to be one of the most successful techniques for gaining access to sensitive systems and information. By claiming to be an employee or vendor with official-looking credentials, criminals can coax information from employees or gain physical access to systems.

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City of Atlanta Hit by Devastating Ransomware Attack

The hackers demanded $51,000 to decrypt the systems. Described by the mayor as a “hostage situation”, the city had to pull in resources from the FBI, Secret Service, and Department of Homeland Security, as well as other academic and private institutions.

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