{"id":234,"date":"2014-10-24T13:56:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-10-24T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T19:04:10","slug":"situational-awareness-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/2014\/10\/24\/situational-awareness-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Situational Awareness for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i style=\"color: #000000\">National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an annual opportunity for folks like us to encourage folks like you to adopt a simple, three-point approach to keeping yourself and your information safe online:<\/i><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">STOP. THINK. CONNECT?<\/h2>\n<p>Paying attention to what is going on around you can go a long way toward keeping you and your data safe online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We encourage you to STOP<\/strong>\u00a0before automatically connecting to that open WI-FI hotspot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then THINK<\/strong>\u00a0about both the name of the network\u00a0you are connecting to\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<em>Is that actually the Starbucks WiFi network? \u2014<\/em>\u00a0as well as the transactions you are performing\u00a0over WiFi; make sure that any web transactions \u2014 especially shopping and banking \u2014 are only to secure web sites\u00a0<em>indicated by https:\/\/\u00a0in the URL\u00a0<\/em>instead of just\u00a0http:\/\/. <em>NEVER click through &#8220;invalid-&#8221; or &#8220;expired certificate&#8221; errors on shopping or banking or University websites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally,\u00a0CONNECT\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0with caution.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the caveats above, consider using a VPN to protect your data in transit over an open WiFi network. A VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between your computer and the VPN server, thus protecting\u00a0your data.<\/p>\n<p>Note:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sslvpn.uvm.edu\/\">sslvpn.uvm.edu<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is available for use by any UVM affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lynne Meeks, for the Information Security Operations Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an annual opportunity for folks like us to encourage folks like you to adopt a simple, three-point approach to keeping yourself and your information safe online: STOP. THINK. CONNECT? Paying attention to what is going on around you can go a long way toward keeping you and your data safe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/2014\/10\/24\/situational-awareness-for-everyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Situational Awareness for Everyone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"lzm","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/author\/lzm\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/whysecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}