{"id":1044,"date":"2022-02-28T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2022-02-28T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:56:51","slug":"maintain-good-it-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/2022\/02\/28\/maintain-good-it-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintain good IT security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now is a good time to check on your IT security. Remember to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/36DiFO2\">Enable two-factor authentication by Tuesday 22 March<\/a> and use it for access to apps and systems<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t reply or click on links in unsolicited emails asking for usernames or passwords &#8211; if in doubt, go directly to the web page or app you use and check there<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t download software from unknown locations and always be suspicious of free or cheap versions of popular software packages<\/li><li>Choose strong passwords<\/li><li>Keep everything updated &#8211; your antivirus, operating systems and other software<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See our <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3HxqFgm\">IT security information<\/a> for full details on how to protect yourself from cyber attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If you think your machine has been attacked or other activity of concern is taking place, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3C01l1h\"><strong>contact the York CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is a good time to check on your IT security. Remember to: Enable two-factor authentication by Tuesday 22 March and use it for access to apps and systems Don&#8217;t reply or click on links in unsolicited emails asking for usernames or passwords &#8211; if in doubt, go directly to the web page or app &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/2022\/02\/28\/maintain-good-it-security\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maintain good IT security<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-news","tag-it-security"],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","custom_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1646063826:9"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["11"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["90"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":["1"],"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1791305397;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:499;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:1522;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:704;}}}}"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}