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Weekly Cybersecurity Quiz: How does the TV show “Bachelor in Paradise” relate to your cybersecurity? Do you think you will get a Rose?

CyberQuizGuy Pop Quiz. Know how to handle this hack? Take this week’s quiz to find out- http://ow.ly/OSWM303xIQo

Some time ago, the FCC was kind enough to put together a decent Cybersecurity planning tool for all to use. As with anything it takes quite a bit of work to employ but with enough work, it’s a pretty good start.

Wednesday we received the following email from one of our law firm followers.  The email was forwarded to Warren County (Ohio) Bar members by the Bar and is from someone at the Ohio Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court's source is MS-ISAC, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center and is a reliable source for the current Cyber-threat level and response recommendations.

I was personally attacked by an IT staff member of a very popular, multi-city law firm. My only provocation was the direct marketing material we use that calls to question a prospect’s satisfaction with their current outsourced IT provider. My experience begs a question to you: do you know how your staff are treating people they interact with in the course of doing firm business for you?

Hands down, I have the best staff in the IT biz! They bend over backwards everyday to make sure the people they interact with feel as if they are the most important people to them – our Culture requires it.

With most of us using Facebook these days, hackers and attackers are tricking people everyday into giving up their usernames and passwords by sending fake Friend requests. On February 8, 2016, to help educate our followers, we posted this example from one of our real Friends.

On January 26, 2016 we asked our followers the following question:

We had 93 people respond with the following results:

Interestingly only 16% of respondents would have done what our Cyber Security experts suggested their answer to the question:

This is a Cyptolocker virus that encrypts and make unreadable many types of files that are accessible from your computer.

On February 2, 2016 we thought we would test our followers knowledge of how to react to phishing emails. We asked this question:

We had 58 responses with the following results:

Although we were happy to see that nearly 50% of followers would delete it and move on, what did concern us is that almost 20% of our respondents would call the company.

I just met up with one of our customers the other day who is just loving Office 365. His exact words were “if I only knew a couple years ago what I know today I would’ve hopped on office 365 that much sooner”. Office 365 is an incredible scenario for most small businesses and law firms.

How many people will use Office 365? How many licenses do you need?

One of the very first questions you have to ask yourself before migrating to Office 365 is “how many licenses do I need?” You would think this is a very straightforward question to answer.