{"id":608,"date":"2013-10-24T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=608"},"modified":"2023-12-13T01:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T06:43:50","slug":"national-cyber-security-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"National Cyber Security Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lock_icon_news.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-601\" alt=\"lock_icon_news\" src=\"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lock_icon_news.png\" width=\"140\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>You might not have had this circled on your calendars, but October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staysafeonline.org\/ncsam\/\">NCSAM<\/a>\u00a0is part of an ongoing campaign to promote greater understanding of the threats to our computers, mobile devices, and data.<\/p>\n<p>We would strongly encourage everyone to take time to make sure you\u2019re studying, working, and shopping safely online. Here are a few resources to help get you started:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/simmons.edu\/technology\/security\/information-security.php\">Simmons College Information Security<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staysafeonline.org\/stay-safe-online\/\">StaySafeOnline.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/goodtoknow\/\">Google\u2019s Guide to Online Safety and Security<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/default.aspx\">Microsoft\u2019s Safety and Security Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/promos.mcafee.com\/en-US\/PDF\/shopping_eBook.pdf\">McAfee\u2019s Guide to Online Shopping<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the many places to find information about staying safe and secure online. If you have any questions about cyber security, you can always reach out to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/servicedesk.simmons.edu\">Service Desk<\/a>\u00a0and we will help you address your concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might not have had this circled on your calendars, but October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month.\u00a0NCSAM\u00a0is part of an ongoing campaign to promote greater understanding of the threats to our computers, mobile devices, and data. We would strongly encourage everyone to take time to make sure you\u2019re studying, working, and shopping safely online. [&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":[264,282],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-264","tag-282"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}