Practice these safety measures to help protect yourself against Cyberfraud
I
wanted to share with you some tips to help protect yourself against the
ever increasing threat of Cyberfraud. These measures will help to
prevent against cyber-attacks and unauthorized access to your electronic
devices.
If you do have any questions, I would love to hear from you.
* Do not click on suspicious emails,
attachments or links.
* Keep your operating system up to date on all devices.
* Install anti-virus software on all devices and keep it up to date.
* Keep your firewall turned ON.
* Turn off, lock, or set to “time out” when your computer or device
is not in use.
* Use strong passwords and change them every 90 days.
* Do not use personal information for passwords. Instead, include one
upper case letter, a special character, a number, etc. and keep the
passwords unique.
* Use individual employee accounts, not shared email accounts.
* Be careful what you download.
* Avoid websites you don’t trust.
* Do NOT send wire instructions or other business-sensitive data to
or from a personal email account.
* Encrypt all emails containing confidential or sensitive information.
* Use only secured email accounts and avoid using unsecured email providers for
business communications, as they are highly targeted accounts.
* Be aware that the email accounts of other parties to a transaction may be unsecured or easily hacked.