Public Service Announcement: Be Extra Cyber-Vigilant These Days

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This is a public service announcement.

The recent escalation of hostilities in the Middle East means that the potential for cyber-attacks has increased. Sometimes these are black box attacks that seek out any target of opportunity, including your servers and data and websites. Sometimes these are attacks on vendors or some entity in your supply chain that drag you in, even if you're not explicitly the target. 

You and your company need to be extra vigilant at least for a few weeks.

That includes:

*Adopt/enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA)

*Patch/upgrade every Internet-facing asset -- looking at you, health care offices and municipalities and school systems

*Segment networks & elevate detection on OT traffic

*Contact your cybersecurity provider or your CISO/CIO/CTO to ensure you're all on the same page with regard to heightened awareness processes

*Ensure repeatedly that your employees at all levels know that they need to be aware that the potential for a cyber-attack is higher

*Check those network activity logs you keep

*Report suspicious activity immediately to federal authorities (in the US, those are FBI & CISA)

Better to play this one safely.