{"id":52601,"date":"2016-02-18T01:17:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=52601"},"modified":"2016-02-18T01:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:17:35","slug":"52601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/52601\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack Prevention Measures: Are you taking them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><strong>The growing threat of cyberattacks prompts a national action plan&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Cybersecurity has been an issue for years.\u00a0 As technology continues to grow, so does the threat of cyberattacks.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">What can you and I do to protect ourselves?\u00a0 Are we being proactive enough to prevent ourselves from becoming the next cyberattack victims?\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Probably not.\u00a0 How many of us still use the same password for all of our personal and work accounts?\u00a0 Or accept a friend or follower request from someone we don\u2019t know?\u00a0 Knowing what to do to protect ourselves, and doing it are two very different things.\u00a0 What has to happen for us to be proactive?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Earlier this week, President Obama implemented\u00a0the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP), which includes several different components to increase our nation\u2019s cybersecurity.\u00a0 Part of this plan is empowering you and I to be proactive when it comes to our own online accounts.\u00a0 We cannot expect a national action plan to keep our information safe on its own.\u00a0 You and I need to be held accountable for our own data, meaning setting up secure passwords with different authentication standards, changing our passwords every 30-60 days, and not using the same passwords for multiple accounts.\u00a0 We also need to be sure we are using security software and \u00a0keeping it up-to-date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The CNAP also includes modernizing government information technology, implementing a Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, and increasing the Federal resources for cybersecurity by 35 percent.\u00a0 To learn more about the implementation of the CNAP, and to obtain more details, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/02\/09\/fact-sheet-cybersecurity-national-action-plan\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/02\/09\/fact-sheet-cybersecurity-national-action-plan\" 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