Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month! To celebrate we’re sharing our ideas for how you can become a little more cyber-secure through awareness, action, and education

As new technologies improve cybersecurity, attackers are pivoting to social engineering strategies to circumvent technical defenses. To help the UD community close the social engineering gap, UDIT is implementing a new security education platform–KnowBe4. This new service also offers fun and educational training through their video series Restricted Intelligence.

Have you been caught by one of our phishing challenges? Phishing exercises are a great way to make sure we are all staying vigilant, especially since hackers are getting increasingly savvy. To keep up with cybercriminals, our phishing challenges are getting even more sophisticated.

Security incidents are increasingly in the news. Ransomware and other threats that start on a single workstation may quickly spread across an entire institutional network. UD is deploying CrowdStrike Falcon to better protect UD-owned desktops and laptops from ransomware and malware attacks.

These days everything requires a password—and for good reason, it is important to protect your data. However, what happens when you have too many passwords and can’t recall them all? Rather than resetting your password or using the same one everywhere, you can use a password management service like LastPass.

This month see what Andy Weisskopf, our Chief Information Security Officer, has checked out from the (virtual or physical) cyber security bookshelf:

Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker Contains many example of when calculations have confidently and assuredly led us into error.

They're short, they're funny, they'll make you laugh.