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The following free resources are available to distribute, train and discuss with your employees in addition to any mandatory cybersecurity awareness trainings required by your department.
The following free resources are available to distribute, train and discuss with your employees in addition to any mandatory cybersecurity awareness trainings required by your department.
These tips are organized here for your convenience to be able to provide additional and continuous training and reminders to your staff.
Scammers use email messages and invoices to trick targets into giving up personal and financial information.
State employees should verify that invites to sign invoices through DocuSign, Adobe Acrobat Sign or to use tools like SharePoint are legitimate before opening. Imposters may be lurking behind those links, but there are ways to VERIFY.
It is up to everyone in state government to protect Commonwealth of Massachusetts data.
It is crucial to validate your vendors to protect your organization from cyberattacks. Take our action steps to prevent fraudsters from infecting state government systems with malware.
It is crucial to validate your vendors to protect your organization from cyberattacks.
HR and Payroll staff should take our action steps to pause and verify personally with any employee requesting an important payroll change such as bank accounts, addresses or other personal information.
It’s important to only use office assigned or approved devices while working.
A reminder to always be vigilant about cybersecurity, especially while working away from the office.
Everything entered into some of the new AI-powered chatbot search bars or websites can become publicly available.
This is the easiest and best way to prevent most outside attacks
PAUSE is a simple internal control that can help state employees prevent most fraud and cyber incidents, including methods seen recently and frequently. (Less than 1 min. read)
REPORT suspicious emails or requests or any you can't verify.
In the 2023 Employee Cyber Awareness Micro Training, we simplify Cybersecurity with three simple steps: PAUSE, VERIFY, REPORT. Cybersecurity simply is the protection of data and systems with internal controls. This video is meant for state employees and should be shared with department colleagues.
VIEW ON YOUTUBECybersecurity videos to help keep you Cyber safe while working.
Lola Obamehinti, a technology leader, television host, and keynote speaker, joins the CTR Cyber 5, to share five tips for successful cyber awareness trainings.
Lisa Beth Lentini Walker, CEO of Lumen Worldwide, talks about ways to make conversations about cybersecurity easy to understand, and relatable to others.
Lieutenant Brian Gavioli of the Massachusetts State Police discusses tips for reporting incidents. (CTR Cyber 5)
Founder and CEO of WIZER Security Awareness Training, Gabriel Friedlander, shares 5 Tips for Cyber Security Awareness for Teleworking Employees. (CTR Cyber 5)
Corporate attorney Jennifer Sanders speaks about what departments and agencies should know about the data they are sharing when using a third party system. (CTR Cyber 5)
Learn some of the approaches scammers use to help you be more aware. (WIZER)
Internal messaging apps can be used by criminal hackers if the employee's account gets compromised. (WIZER)
The Cybersecurity Awareness Training main page has free resources to keep you Cyber safe at work, at home, and on the go.
VISIT PAGEThe Office of the Comptroller has developed CTR Cyber to identify key cybersecurity internal controls for Commonwealth of Massachusetts departments, and to promote cybersecurity awareness and cyber vigilance for everyone in these organizations.
VISIT PAGEIt is important that Commonwealth of Massachusetts departments immediately report any cyber incidents or other suspicious activity to departmental IT staff, even if the activity or email seems innocuous.
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