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Cyber-security- Protecting Your Citizens

Sperlman said to have a LARM members need to
comprehensive computer submit information to LARM sensitive information be
policy in place and about their current office altered, corrupted,
enforced. Policies included computer cyber safety destroyed, or deleted,
credit card and social
should be that the work policies including whether security number
password should never be they have a privacy policy, information from citizens
used outside of work. if they store credit card can be taken. An
Care should be taken with
C i i
innformation, if they back up
inadnadvertent click on a web
work phones and work and encrypt sensitive page may be all that it
computers used off site as information, whether takes for a system to
stolen and lost phones and they’ve had a breach to become unusable,” Bos said.
laptops provide an easy their computer system in Nebraska Homeland
method for hackers to copy the past, and if they Security provides
and use your data. regularly update their Community Cybersecurity
“ c Exercise Planning for
“Phishing emails try to trap
computer software.
you into giving out bank It is vital that staff establish community representatives.
numbers or other sensitive basic computer security For more information go to
information. They are able habits. nema.nebraska.gov.
to spoof someon else’s “There are a variety of risk M
More information on
email,” Sperlman said. exposures a government reducing your
H entity has that comes with cyber-security threat can
He emphasie emphasized the
importance of backing up using computers, email and abe found at
computer data and then the Internet. An employee https://www.cisecurity.org/.
testing it to make sure it is may bring a virus infected
viable. thumb drive to work that
“Make sure you have a i
“
innfects all of the office
backup for at least the computers. Because of that
last six weeks on a breach, not only can
different network and then
test it.”

“Our daily life, economic vitality, and national security

depend on a stable, safe, and resilient cyberspace.”

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Protect your home and/or business WiFi

network. Photo taken in downtown Oshkosh NE