National Cybersecurity Awareness Month begins now!
It's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and IT Services has a LOT going on.
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month begins now!
Each October, IT Services observes National Cybersecurity Awareness month with a full schedule of events, lectures, content, and more. Take a look at what we’ve cooked up for this year!
NCSAM Mission: Be Better at Backups
The main theme for this year’s NCSAM is data backup, with a side quest of data hygiene. Are you following good backup practices with your personal and professional data? What precautions are you taking to ensure you have a clean, up-to-date copy of all the files and programs you use on a daily basis? Do you know who you’re sharing documents with in Google Drive? Do you have a regular cadence of going through old files and making sure you’re only keeping what you absolutely need?
We’ll show you how to answer these questions and more, providing you with the tools and information you need to be better at data hygiene! Make sure you're following along on our social channels (@miamiuits on Instagram and @miamiuit on X).
CyberMania is back and better than ever
We are going for victory for the third year running in our annual CyberMania competition with Ohio University. This year, our quiz focuses on how confident you are in your own cybersecurity knowledge—hopefully pretty confident!
The competition will run from Sept. 26 through Oct. 31. Help us prove (again) that Miami is the best at cybersecurity by taking our quiz!
Bookmark this page and return when the quiz opens Friday!
Introducing: The Phish Bowl
In addition to the traditional National Cybersecurity Month fare, the Information Security Office is excited to announce a brand-new resource that the Miami community can use to help identify phishing attempts and current cybersecurity incidents.
We’re calling it: The Phish Bowl.
Beyond the clever title (which we cannot take credit for), this website will serve several purposes. As we experience phishing attacks and various cybersecurity incidents, information about these incidents will be posted to the site.
That’s not all—if an email goes out from a Miami office that we get a lot of calls about (it does happen!), we will also record that on this list as not phishing, so that you know you can safely open the message.
Along with the site, Miami community members may now also email PhishBowl@MiamiOH.edu to report potential scams. You may continue to email InfoSec@MiamiOH.edu as well, but the PhishBowl mailbox will have a few new features enabled that allow us to respond more quickly to phishing reports.
NCSAM Schedule of Events
We will have information tables set up in Oxford, Hamilton, and Middletown throughout the month of October. Stop by to win prizes, ask us questions, and learn more about information security at Miami:
- Oxford, Armstrong Student Center: Oct. 3, 17, 24, 31 | 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Hamilton, Schwarm Commons: Oct. 15 | 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Middletown, Johnston Hall: Oct. 20 | 11:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Fireside Cyberchat: Helen Patton, Cybersecurity Executive Advisor at Cisco
In addition to our regular tabling events, we will also host cybersecurity expert Helen Patton for our second ever Fireside Cyberchat via Zoom. More information about Patton’s lecture will be forthcoming, but mark your calendars now: Oct. 16 at 2 p.m.
Helen Patton is a strategic cybersecurity advisor at Cisco, and previously the CISO at The Ohio State University. Helen has a master’s degree in public policy, blogs about cybersecurity stuff and is the author of “Navigating the Cybersecurity Career Path”. She advocates for more naps and is anti-bagpipes.
This will be Helen’s second Fireside Cyberchat, as last year she joined us to speak about the importance of digital estate planning. (Find the video on our YouTube channel!)
Invite and more to come!
