Holiday Giveaway - Day 10

Thanks so much! Also appreciate all the support and kind words on yesterday's post really does mean a lot.

Backup, Backup, Backup can never have to many backups, also if something seems to good to be true it probably is :) I deal with so many people that just click on anything that pops up or will reply to any kind of email, always have to tell people, no you most likely did not inherit 1 million dollars from the prince of Saudi Ariba :) 

Also make sure you have the basics covered as far as having an Antivirus and Firewall setup

OK, so this isn't specifically cyber-security advice, rather advice for any type of problem solving, aka shooting troubles.

I took a pic of a small desk plaque I made with my Webroot Malwarewolf :).  The quote is from my favorite book of all time, I've read it easily 20 times over the years.

Don’t be a “Happy Clicker” and click on every link you see! Especially the unknown links.

Congrats @Rodney18 and @Jasper_The_Rasper !

Best cyber security advice I've ever received?

Question everything. Never believe anything first time round and ask yourself why you are doing what you are about to do!

ProTruckDriver wrote:

Don’t be a “Happy Clicker” and click on every link you see! Especially the unknown links.

 

 

I love this gif. You even got a Mac one ;)

mmaner wrote:

OK, so this isn't specifically cyber-security advice, rather advice for any type of problem solving, aka shooting troubles.

 

 

I took a pic of a small desk plaque I made with my Webroot Malwarewolf :).  The quote is from my favorite book of all time, I've read it easily 20 times over the years.

Is that Webroot MalwareWolf?

In meme form. The truth hurts:
 

It is :)

Thank you for the Yeti @TylerM 

Some good points here so far about backing up, keeping an AV going etc.

But the best advice I have heard and give after those is something which we do not generally hear so much about.

IF you are looking for an app OR anything to download which you do not normally look at never do it when really tired, stressed or in a rush. It is surprising how many mistakes are made like that and before you know what has happened you have malware on your computer. So take a deep breath, relax and check those links etc before clicking.

Best Cyber Security Advice:

1. Verify your backups and always keep an offline copy of your backups so that it can not be accessed in the event of a ransomware attack.
2. Hover over links with the mouse and email addresses to view the true return address or link address in an email.
3. Never trust a link sent in an email you weren’t expecting. If you get a password reset email, type in the URL in a web browser and follow the appropriate steps on the site to reset your password.

The best advice given to me was actually from another non technical colleague and it was the most basic and obvious when I thought about it, and it was just to:

Pause.
Don’t act in haste.

Take stock of the situation and think before taking your next actions. 
This has made me effective when advising customers and also made me trust nothing and question everything.

The safest Computer is unplugged.

This is turning into a paranoia thread!! 😧

The best advise ever given to me

1. 3-2-1-1 backup strategy
2. DRaaS to a cloud platform. 
3. A proper AV platform which is cloud driven. 
4. 2FA on all platforms you secure yourself and your clients with.
5. Data is the single most important asset that any company possess. As such, your backups and DR side is always your last line of defense. 
6. Items such as accidental deletion, system failures, malicious insiders, malware and ransomware, hardware failures, all are to be viewed as WHEN it is going to happen, and NEVER IF it is going to happen. As such, you always have to prepare yourself and your client for the absolute worst case scenario, and then build the defense wall around that. 
7. Don't sell fear, sell facts. And as such, trust no single person, and always have a backup for your backup plan. 

Based on the last few years applying the above, my company send be to a psychologist thinking I am insane, but after the session, the psychologist needed a few sessions with the physiatrist to recover from the session we had together. :-) 

I still have mine from last year, and absolutely love it. 

Me too. I have the set of threat cadets. Love them

TripleHelix wrote:

The safest Computer is unplugged.

 

 

 

love this