Awareness in Cybersecurity
Last Updated: 02/03/2022
The Iscte- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa has joined the initiative of “Cybersecurity Awareness” in Higher Education Institutions (IES), a collaborative project between the MetaRed Collaborative Network and the Cybersecurity Institute of Spain (INCIBE).
The #ProtegeOTeuCampus (https://www.metared.org/pt/ProtegeOTeuCampus.html) campaign is to raise awareness and inform academic communities of the risks and best practices in cybersecurity. It makes sense for young people to learn in university the best practices to act and defend themselves in this area.
The information
Information is one of the most important assets of any organization, regardless of its size or area of activity.
Formative resources, papers and dissertations, practices, management documents, research results, etc., are examples of information that we must protect in our universities.
Email
As in any communication tool, it is necessary to define its correct and safe use, since, in addition to abusive uses and inadvertent errors, email has become one of the most widely used means by cybercriminals to perpetrate their attacks.
It is customary to receive spam, phishing messages, or messages from false entities or people in your inboxes. In these cases, they use social engineering techniques to achieve their malicious purposes, for example infecting the equipment or even the entire university network, as well as stealing access data, bank details or confidential information.
In a malicious email, both the sender and the subject, the body text and attachments or links may have been designed to trick the recipient of the message.
Passwords
In study or daily work, you need to access a variety of services, devices, and apps using a double element: username and password.
Ensuring the safety of this dual element is imperative for the university, and the first security measure to take is the use of secure passwords.
Iscte Workstation
The job or study is where we perform our daily tasks at the university. As part of these day-to-day activities, any user must access different systems and treat different types of information.
Consequently, we must take into account that the job is fundamental from the point of view of information security.
Personal Devices
The use of personal devices belonging to university workers, both administration and service staff, faculty or researchers, to fulfill professional tasks, is called BRING Your Own Device (BYOD).
Social networks
Currently, social networks are a very important tool for society and also, consequently, for the university community. Through social networks, students, teachers, researchers or administration and service personnel can make contacts, share opinions, studies, projects, events, etc., of their personal and professional life.