{"id":44632,"date":"2017-05-01T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44632"},"modified":"2017-05-01T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:17:16","slug":"passwords-at-centre-of-latest-cyber-security-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/05\/passwords-at-centre-of-latest-cyber-security-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Passwords at centre of latest cyber security campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new cyber security campaign has been launched to help improve the \u2018password hygiene\u2019 of the Brock community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock ITS Services is reminding people to change their passwords regularly and to make them strong by including numbers, symbols and characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to keep information protected, passwords should never be shared or made visible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tips from ITS:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pick a strong password that is difficult to guess and contains a mixture of letters, numbers and special characters. One method is to pick a memorable sentence to convert into a password. For instance, \u201cThe best university in the world is Brock University!\u201d could be used as \u201cTbuinwiBU!\u201d by using the first letter of each word. An entire sentence can also be used with special characters in a pattern.<\/span>\u00a0For example, \u201cMy cat has furry feet\u201d could be used as\u00a0\u201cMy,cat,has,furry,feet!\u201d<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use different passwords for different services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do not share your passwords or make them visible to anyone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change\u00a0your password every four\u00a0months. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use a password management program or service.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For assistance setting up a strong password, call the service desk at ext. 4357 or e-mail <\/span><a href=\"mailto:itsecurity@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">itsecurity@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/security\/password-protection\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cyber Security Awareness \u2014 Think Before you Click program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cyber security campaign has been launched to help improve the \u2018password hygiene\u2019 of the Brock community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[5282,3190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44637,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44632\/revisions\/44637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}