Cybersecurity Awareness Program Updates - January 2023

New Year, New You campaign - Build your cyber fitness in 2023!

The start of a new year is a great time to review your cybersecurity habits and give them an upgrade! Our New Year, New You campaign, through February 28, will help you resolve to be cyber fit in 2023.

Join us for our:

• Scavenger hunt – put your cyber problem-solving skills to the test with our cybersecurity awareness puzzle
• Romance scam series – Do you and members of your family know how to sniff out a cybercriminal posing as a love interest? It happens all the time. Get to the heart of romance scams and catfishing on February 2 and 9, and learn how to avoid them.
• Bee naming contest – the Bee Cyber Fit mascot’s identity hasn’t been stolen – it never had one! Help our mascot start the new year with a new name.  

Coming soon! Be on the lookout for the 2023 Cybersecurity Awareness Climate Survey. Share your ideas for content and activities to build your cyber fitness.

You may even win some of the cool swag up for grabs to help you be cyber-aware.

If you see something, say something

We can increase our cyber fitness by paying attention to both our physical and digital surroundings.

Immediately report any suspected security incidents to the Information Security Office, especially if you work with HIPAA covered data. Did you know that Yale has legal obligations to report a security incident involving HIPAA data within a certain period of time? As soon as you notice something is amiss, the clock starts ticking! Visit the Information Security Report an Incident page to find out more.

How can you increase the physical security of your data? Always lock your computer when you step away, talk to your IT support provider if you need help setting up your computer to lock automatically.

Catch up on the Bee Cyber Fit podcasts

Season 1 of the Bee Cyber Fit podcast is a wrap!  Check out our 8-episode season and up your cybersecurity awareness! A few highlights:

• Episode 1 – Discover why sharing stories is so important to building our cyber fitness
• Episode 2 – Tips to build a “healthy skepticism” muscle
• Episode 3 – Learn how Jeremy Rosenberg fell victim to a clever phishing scam
• Episode 4 – Why plugging your device into a public charging station can lead to “juice-jacking”
• Episode 5 – The cunning ways cybercriminals target seniors in Walmart gift card scams
• Episode 6 – How scam websites trick us into buying fake items
• Episode 7 – Deepfakes – what they are, why you should care and how to spot them
• Episode 8 – James and Wendy’s favorite season 1 highlights!