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Tip Sheets

SAFE (Security Awareness for Everyone) is a program to increase awareness about cybersecurity. By raising awareness, we hope to help change online behaviors, as well as encourage you to practice safe computing habits, make smart and informed decisions about information security, and protect your business.


If you handle the personal information of others for your job, you know you need to protect it and keep it secure. But do you take the same care with your personal information, or do you just trust (or HOPE) that it's protected? For Data Privacy Week 2022, we provide some helpful tips on protecting your personal information and what to do if it's ever compromised.

You can’t open your email or files - you've been hacked! What happened? Ransomware happened! Think Ransomware only comes from sophisticated, knowledgeable hackers and affecting large companies with lots of money? You may be surprised! Read this latest SAFE Tip Sheet to find out the truth and get some easy tips to avoid falling victim to Ransomware.

Phishing by another other names is still phishing, but it's not just from email anymore. Welcome to Smishing (SMS phishing) - it may be coming to a cell phone near you! Not sure what it is? Read the Smishing Tip Sheet to learn more about it, and how better to avoid it!

It is almost Thanksgiving - time for turkey and stuffing, family get-togethers - and the two biggest online shopping days of the year. And also prime time for holiday scammers trying to trick you out of your dollars! Make this your safest holiday shopping time by learning simple steps to be more secure online and getting wise to bad guys and their online tricks so that you don't get Scrooged!

Can you imagine living without email? It’s fast, you can use it anywhere, anytime, and it keeps us in touch with everyone and everything we need. But, it also comes with some possible downsides (think phishing, malware, and scams). It only takes a few tips - turned into habits - to help you avoid the downsides and keep your inbox, and you, SAFE.