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Year-End Cybersecurity Tips with Matt Eshleman

• Community IT Innovators • Season 5 • Episode 50

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It won’t be a surprise that AI is on everyone’s mind. Matt also shared some thoughts on some year end cybersecurity tips and maintenance to ensure your cybersecurity practices – and permissions – are up to date.

Nonprofit Cybersecurity expert and Community IT CTO Matt Eshleman offered these year-end cybersecurity tips.

  • Do a permissions audit at the enterprise level – what are your defaults for sharing, and how are you training your staff to log in to various tools and subscriptions that can access your data? 
  • At a personal level, what are the safest ways to log on to your accounts? How should you be storing passwords? How are you setting your personal sharing and log in permissions? 
  • Reviewing these policies and practices – and actually going in to your systems and checking – is a good end-of-year cybersecurity task.
  • Consumer Reports has good tools for people who want to reduce their data footprint. 

Matt also reported back from the NGOISAC Conference on the trends that the community is seeing. For more information on the NGOISAC cybersecurity community for NGOs and Nonprofits, use this link.

  • AI companies are not spending nearly enough on safety as they rush to market their products. That puts it on consumers and organizations to know how to protect themselves.
  • AI is increasing the ability of hackers, and in the arms race with protectors, a corresponding use of AI to block phishing and other hacks is playing catch up.
  • Nonprofits are going to need to understand our new environment where not just emails will seem realistic but where voice and video fakes will be put in use. Finding old fashioned ways to verify that the person you are interacting with is a person will become more important as AI powers grow.

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