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In this episode of Cyber Sentinel. we're discussing today's trendy buzzword in tech: IOT. What is it? and is it a potential threat to the corporate world?

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 Cyber Sentinel - Episode: 006 -Do you buy tickets online? Is your information safe when you do it? 

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 - Is your information safe online when purchasing sports tickets? That and more today on Cyber Sentinel. Hello and welcome to Cyber Sentinel, this is Alan Adcock where I'm CEO of ASC Group here in Atlanta, Georgia. And today we're going to be talking about some cyber security incidents in the news and additional ways to keep your company safe online.

Data Privacy, Public Wifi and Other Updates

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 Is public wifi safe? Can your data be compromised if you're connected when you're out and about? Find out today on Cyber Sentinel. Welcome to Cyber Sentinel. I'm Alan Adcock. I'm CEO of ASC Group. We, on this show, talk about ways to defend your data and keep your company safe online. You can find us on social media at #cybersentinel and we wanna have your questions so we can answer those on our show.

Do small businesses need to be concerned about data privacy?

So yes, all businesses need to be concerned about data privacy. We see data breaches reported in the news on a regular basis. You've probably gotten a letter in the mail saying that your data had been breached. I got one of these from the National Archives, of all places, that they had disclosed all of my personal data many years ago. So, in general, small businesses don't have good data privacy policies in place and systems to secure that data. Definitely wanna review that in your organization. Make sure that that data is stored in secure locations on your network. Make sure it's encrypted and make sure that your staff are trained on how to handle this. Some industries, like the medical field, have good regulations on how to do this, through the HIPAA rulings, that they are required to adhere to, but all businesses need to be thinking about how to keep that secure data, or that sensitive data secured so they don't disclose that information on their clients on the web.

 Is public wifi safe to use?

Yeah, so public wifi is an issue that comes up a lot. Everywhere you go now, there is public wifi. People are very used to connecting to public wifi access points with all their devices, their telephones, tablets, laptops. There's a lot of things to be concerned about and to think about before you get connected. Oftentimes, we'll find that people will go into an establishment, look at the wifi that's being broadcast and just pick one and connect. You don't know for sure that that is the actual establishment's wifi. If you connect to a rogue access point that someone has set up, then they're gonna be able to track all of the information you send over that access point. If you're trying to access secure systems, putting your password to login to websites, they're gonna capture all that information. So be very careful when you connect to public wifi that you're connected to the legitimate access points for that establishment and not something that's been set up as a rogue access point.

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 - So, the good guys get a big win on the Dark Web, today on Cyber Sentinel. Welcome to Cyber Sentinel. My name is Alan Adcock. I'm CEO of ASC Group, an IT consulting firm here in Atlanta, Georgia. On Cyber Sentinel, we address questions that you send into us over the internet, and so let's get to it.  - [Narrator] What is the Dark Web?  - If you're not familiar with Dark Web, Dark Web is kinda this secured area on the internet that you have to use tools like something called TOR, which is the onion router, to go in and access these sites in an anonymous way. And so, the Dark Web is a place where there's all kinds of things for sale, information, you can buy credit cards, you can buy personal records, you can buy information to use for doing IRS tax refund scams, all of the malware virus toolkits, rootkit toolkits, all that good stuff is for sale on the Dark Web. So anyway, there's a site called the Wall Street Market. It was taken down, primarily in Germany. A lot of people's houses got raided over this. So, some of the interesting stuff that came out of this article, on this one site on the Dark Web, there were 5400 sellers, so people offering up information and tools for sale on that, 1.1 million customer accounts had been created on this site for buyers, and there were about 63000 items open for sale at the time that they were able to take this thing offline. So, that kinda gives you an example of the scale of what's out there in the Dark Web. Most people would love for their, most small businesses would love for their website, their online store to have those kinda numbers for their legitimate goods, as these guys had. But that one is no more. So, through a large effort globally, Europol was able to take this one offline and give us a win for the good guys. 

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 - So, are you concerned as a business owner that you're employees are wasting too much time on social media during the day? Find out the answer to how we can stop that, as well as other cyber security issues, today on Cyber Sentinel. Welcome to Cyber Sentinel, I'm Alan Adcock. I'm CEO of ASC Group here in Atlanta, and on this episode we're gonna talk about some more ways to keep your data safe and defend your corporate network. We want to hear more questions from you, so find us on social media at #CyberSentinel and we'll get those questions answered.  - [Narrator] Are there steps I should take before using public wifi?  - So public wifi comes up a lot. We've talked before about making sure you're connected to a legitimate public access point. Other things to consider, the PC or Mac that you're using, is that encrypted, are you using proper password controls on that device? If you need to access corporate data or financial data from a public location, please make sure that you've got a VPN software client on your machine, that you've connected to that VPN before you go and access that data. Things like, personal email, things like that, probably not a big deal. Corporate mail, always assume that that corporate mail, someone's gonna read that, so that, again, you might want to be connected to a VPN before accessing that. Make sure that you've got good malware protection on there, your antivirus is up to date. All those general good machine hygiene items before using public wifi. 

Cyber Sentinel Episode 002: The Mueller Report 

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So the big news recently is the Mueller 

Report came out of Washington.

There's a whole lot of technical jargon

in that report and we're going to

discuss some of those items today on

Cyber Sentinel.

Hello this is Alan Adcock I'm CEO of ASC

Group here in Atlanta Georgia. Today on

Cyber Sentinel we're gonna be talking

about the Mueller Report. Big topic in

news recently.... there's a lot of technical

jargon in that report and we're gonna go

over some of those items in case you may

not know be familiar with what those are

in this episode of cyber Sentinel. If you

have other questions that you want us to

address on Cyber Sentinel please reach

out to us on social media at

#CyberSentinel what is Spearphishing? So

spearphishing appears in the Mueller

report eleven times.

spearphishing is a form of a phishing

attack. Phishing is an email type of

attack where people will send you a

message that is designed to deceive you

into clicking links or downloading

attachments attached to that email. Spear

phishing is a form of that attack that

is highly targeted at you. Specifically

so they will monitor your email traffic

everything you send via email is

unencrypted across the internet and

anybody can read it. Just keep that in

mind. And so in this case the perpetrator

is going to be watching your email

traffic and seeing who you correspond to

with on a regular basis. And they're

gonna craft a message that looks like

somebody you usually communicate with

and try to convince you to click on

those links.

 Cyber Sentinel Episode 001 - 

How safe is my data in the Cloud? 

What are threats to our network security? 

Do small businesses have to worry about being hacked?   

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You see on the news all the time where large companies have gotten hacked. Small companies get hacked all the time too. Find out ways to protect yourself today on Cyber Sentinel. Welcome to Cyber Sentinel I'm Alan Adcock CEO of ASC Group and we're going to talk about steps to staying safe online and protecting your company's data. A couple of things in the news we've got a cybersecurity issue in Jackson County where they had to pay $400,000 in a ransom to get their data back. We'll talk about ways to prevent that and other risk to your data.  We want to have your questions as well for future episodes so find us on social media at #CyberSentinel. Are there rules for keeping your data safe in the Cloud? There are definitely rules to look at for keeping data safe in the cloud. The cloud really is just an extension of the local network. So if your machine that you're using to access those Cloud resources is compromised they're gonna have access to that cloud resource as well. So keeping those machines clean and making sure that they don't have compromises on them is critical. Whether the servers are on site or in the cloud it doesn't really matter. Second thing to worry about with cloud based applications is the logins. On a local area network you've got your password management in the cloud. You have password management as well and it's super critical because those resources can be attacked 24/7 from anywhere in the world because they're cloud-based. So definitely need to make sure you have strong password policies. Make sure those passwords are changed frequently if the cloud resource offers something called two-factor authentication to FA or MFA multi-factor authentication. Definitely want to look at turning those on. That is the best way to make sure that your accounts are not being accessed by people other than you or authorized personnel.