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IT update

Spear phishing & what to do about it

Spear phishing is the fraudulent practice of sending emails ostensibly from a known or trusted sender in order to induce targeted
individuals to reveal confidential information. Prior to conducting a spear phishing attack, suspects will conduct open source
intelligence gathering and research on their targets. Many times, this includes visiting an organization’s website and searching for
employee information.
Due to threats of this nature, please exercise great caution and be on the lookout for suspicious activity surrounding the request of
confidential information. If you experience any of these types of instances, please contact MIL’s FSO, Tesfaye Swanson, immediately.

Computer health & maintenance –

rebooting your machine

Many of us leave our computers running for extended periods of
time. Maybe you don’t want to shut down that browser with 27
tabs open. Or perhaps you have several documents open and don’t SharePoint Spotlight
want to have to find and re-open them all later. But did you know
that your computer benefits from periodic restarts for a variety of Microsoft is developing an ever-evolving suite of real-time
reasons? information sharing and collaboration solutions. MIL
» Many updates aren’t completed until you restart the computer has a diverse team of in-house experts who are able to
» Restarting flushes your computer’s memory demonstrate and assist with implementing most of these
solutions. New and improved business process applications
» Restarting shuts down programs that you may not need to you may want to consider include:
have running, freeing up your processor for the tasks you
need done » Connecting your Teams, SharePoint, One Drive, and
File Explorer: allows files to be accessed and synced
How often should you restart? Generally, once a week is fine to across multiple platforms using the application of each
keep the computer running efficiently but you should restart if user’s choice or comfort level
your computer feels sluggish or unresponsive, an update requires » Explore Project Cortex: provides knowledge discovery
it, or if you’re not going to be using it for a few days. and content intelligence using advanced artificial
intelligence to discover and manage content
Lunch & learn » Make Data-Driven Decisions with Power Business

As our company continues to find secure and creative ways to Intelligence and Visio: allows expert extraction
collaborate with internal and external customers, MIL is providing of Microsoft Excel databases and creates real-time
monthly virtual training “Lunch & Learns” specifically aimed visualization of data
at Microsoft Teams and SharePoint capabilities. Departments » Be on the Look Out for Major Improvements to
may also request smaller sessions for customized training or Search Capabilities: Microsoft is addressing known
demonstrations based on a team’s specific requirements. Below is issues with search feature limitations via the use of
an At-a-Glance snapshot of the main features used in Teams. For Hubs and improvements to search accuracy within lists,
the full version and many other tools and resources, visit the MIL libraries, and sites as well as across shared libraries and
SharePoint & Teams Training site here. This site also provides the business units
latest training dates for 2021 or you may request a customized
session by emailing rhelms@milcorp.com.

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