Awareness Posters

Awareness Poster: Loser? Not if you use screen lock!

You know that moment when you realize you don’t know where your phone is? Have you lost it? Is it gone for good? Was there any sensitive information on it? Emails? Contacts? Company documents? What if somebody finds it and steals that sensitive information? There’...

Awareness Poster: Pick Up the Phone

Don’t rely just on email for communication. Picking up the phone and talking directly to a person will help to get your message across more clearly and accurately than with email, saving you the time it would take to type out an email, send it, then wait for the person...

Don’t Get Smished!

Mobile Devices Security Awareness (and User Awareness) can prevent successful smishing attacks! We have all heard about phishing, or at least I hope so. But, how many have heard about smishing? Smishing is another form of social engineering attack that uses SMS (text messagi...

User Accountability

Keeping Passwords Safe and Log-ins Secure As users of your information resources, your employees should be reminded on a periodic basis that they are responsible for all activity that takes place while using their user name. If the security of their user login is compromise...

Gone Phishing!

Phishing Awareness Poster Due to recent events (RSA’s SecurID breach), we thought it would be prudent to create a “phishing” awareness poster. Wikipedia sums up the meaning of “phishing” the best:    Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire s...

Security Takes Cooperation!

Security Takes Cooperation! We’ve all had to deal with that one employee who just can’t cooperate with anybody.  But even the best of us need to be reminded that cooperation is one of the most important elements of any team, not to mention a team trying to prote...

When the Mice Are Away!

Human Security Risks: The Unattended Workstation In working on our clients’ risk assessments, in addition to preparing our own assessment, one of the top “human” risks we find is an unattended workstation. An easy, cost-effective (no cost to you) mitigatin...

Are You a Security Blanket?

How often do you get a phone call from a customer needing information on his/her checking or savings account, loan, or other banking product? I’m sure you can probably answer that with “often enough.” So, how do your employees handle that phone call from ...

Consumer Advisory: Continued Work from Home Scams

Consumers continue to lose money from work-from-home scams that assist cyber criminals move stolen funds. Worse yet, due to their deliberate or unknowing participation in the scams, these individuals may face criminal charges. Work-from-home scam victims are often recruited ...

What’s in YOUR Trash Can?

We have had a great response concerning our security awareness “poster” concerning strong passwords! We thank you for that. In fact, we have had several requests for additional ones from several people. I hope to get posters created for all your awareness conc...