🌟 New Year's Cyber Resolutions Contest! 🌐

Like most resolutions that don’t happen, change all of my passwords into monstrous entities like MQ3Oy0/02OEG}v!\Wo?avprfM.Cfy!) while culling entries in my password manager.

It is always time for redecoration and organize cables everywhere 

New year for me means yearly IT reviews. Lets see if I can get to double digits of clients that actually take up my suggestions and invest in their own security!

It’s the year to fully move our analogue phone base to VoIP, whether they like it or not!  Unfortunately nothing inspiring but if we don’t they’ll all be cut off by 2025, so time to enter the 21st century, people!

Ok, how did you get my password to the 20 million in Crypto I hold!!!! :)

Make a commitment to improve my understanding of cybersecurity best practices. Learning about new threats and how to mitigate them, or implementing stronger security protocols in clients networks.

As we usher in the New Year, fortifying our cybersecurity practices should be at the top of our resolutions. Here are some cybersecurity resolutions for a safer digital journey in the coming year:

1. Fortify Password Practices

2. Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

3. Regular Security Audits

4. Stay Informed about Cyber Threats

5. Phishing Awareness Training

6. Update Software and Hardware

7. Secure Home Networks

8. Backup Important Data

9. Educate Family and Friends

10. Privacy Checkup

11. Organize and Label Cables

Great list. Would love to tick them all off! 👍🏻

This year I will continue to improve my knowledge of cyber security threats that currently face us, and I will work with my parents to help educate them and keep them safe from internet-based scams and cyber crime. I will educate them on best password policies and make sure they have Webroot antivirus and AppRiver spam filtering services to minimize their risk. They can be an easy target and it’s hard to make them understand that a 4-letter password isn’t safe enough.

Increase awareness of the Essential 8 Security guidelines including standardising and benchmarking capabilities for OS and 3rd party app patching and hardening, user permission audits, mandating two factor authentication across all platforms and the need for defined RTO and RPO for BCDR solutions.

“try not to freak out” is a valid answer?

To throw NIST CSF v2 at our client list and see how many  holes it finds :)

Possibly ISC2 CCSP cert :)

Better post-intrusion protocols.

Write a good newsletter with useful cyber security practices for our customers.

Warn them they are targeted.

Show them how they will get targeted with examples.

Try to stop them from falling for the scams.

We’ve considered electrifying phishing links (nothing like a taser though) to discourage users from following them in future, but we will probably revert to The Webroot security awareness land pages and a ticking off from the boss who gets to know who got caught.

Change my passwords…..

Enable 2FA on as many accounts as I can

And change many of my existing passwords to more secure versions

Work resolution:

Fully integrate at least 50% of our clients into our security tech stack

Home tech resolution:

Get all our IOT devices off the main network. VLAN or guest network.

I’ve got a Ooma because the wife really wanted a “landline” and it’s been like 7 years now and she doesn’t know it’s VOIP 🤣

You better tell her… 😮

Love the Home Tech resolution very smart and always something that’s easy to put off

Yes it absolutely is 🤣

These are all really good ones and I’m struggling that I’ve done two prize wheels

@RobinTalbot  & @tmcmullen are our winners!

Please DM me your choice of USD/GBP/EUR gift card!

Congrats @RobinTalbot and @tmcmullen 

Congrats!!