Awareness in Cybersecurity

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.