{"id":1148,"date":"2016-10-19T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2023-12-15T00:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:33:59","slug":"national-cyber-security-awareness-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"National Cyber Security Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a surprising amount of talk lately about cyber security. This important but often overlooked topic even made an appearance in a presidential debate as &#8220;the security aspect of cyber.&#8221; We\u2019re not 100% sure what that means, but we do know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), and we want to help you understand the threats to your computers, mobile devices, and data.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources to help you learn more and stay safe online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/internal.simmons.edu\/students\/general-information\/technology\/information-security\">Simmons College Information Security<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/staysafeonline.org\/ncsam\">NCSAM at StaySafeOnline.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/servicedesk.simmons.edu\/articles\/index.php?action=showEntry&amp;data=4113\">Antivirus software download<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/safetycenter\/\">Google\u2019s Safety Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/default.aspx\">Built-in Security from Microsoft<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/promos.mcafee.com\/en-US\/PDF\/ShopOnlinewithConfidence_us.pdf\">McAfee\u2019s Guide to Secure Online Shopping (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any questions about cyber security, keeping your devices and data safe, or working with sensitive data at Simmons, the <a href=\"http:\/\/servicedesk.simmons.edu\/\">Service Desk<\/a> is always available to help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staysafeonline.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/techliveseasier.png\" alt=\"NCSAM graphic\" width=\"425\" align=\"none\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a surprising amount of talk lately about cyber security. This important but often overlooked topic even made an appearance in a presidential debate as &#8220;the security aspect of cyber.&#8221; We\u2019re not 100% sure what that means, but we do know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), and we want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[341,349],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-341","tag-349"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}