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MVP Insider CONTENT October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and MVP is dedicated to making MVP Insider ...... 1 sure our partners and business’ all over WNY are educated and informed on Cyber Security Best Practices. I just hosted a webinar on Cyber Security Best MVP Community Outreach ...... 2 Practices and Employee Training and that can be seen on our MVP University Page www.mvpworks.com/university in the webinars section. MVP’s Top 3 ...... 2 We also have tons of great content about cyber security tips and news from Cyber Security Resources ...... 2 around the globe on our social media channels. Be sure to Follow Us! : Tech Gadget ...... 2 www.facebook.com/mvpworks : @mvpworks LinkedIn: www..com/company/mvp-network-consulting Instagram: App of the Month ...... 3 @mvp_works

Cyber Security Tip ...... 3 MVP was also recently featured in a Buffalo Business First Article and on the Front Page, which can be found

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here as well as my interview on Channel 4 Wake up! City, Country. City,

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We hope everyone is staying safe and practicing safety

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01 MVP’s Top 3 Tips to Prevent Getting Hacked Tech Gadget Cyber Security Tip MVP Community Outreach 1. Train Employees. Your team needs to know how to identify and handle today’s IT security threats. Cybercriminals often rely on your Ember Temperature Control Smart Mug 2 Parents: Tell Your kids to Share With Care employees’ lack of training to break into your network. Ongoing train- Every child is taught physical safety and security, like ing gives employees tools and resources to overcome this and many Designed for home or office, the new Ember Mug² does more than not talking to strangers and fastening seat belts before other IT security challenges. Make training a top priority! simply keep your coffee hot. Our driving. Teaching young people easy-to-learn life lessons

smart mug allows you to set an for online safety and privacy begins with parents leading the 2. Hold Employees (And Yourself) Accountable. Training and compa- exact drinking temperature, so way. What you post can last a lifetime: Help your children ny guidelines don’t mean much without accountability. When you set your coffee is never too hot, or understand that any information they share online can easily For the month of October, MVP has rules, follow them, just as you follow industry and government rules too cold. be copied and is almost impossible to take back. Teach them chosen EdTech of WNY for our and regulations when operating your business. Be willing to hold any- to consider who might see a post and how it might be Community Outreach program. This one who does not accountable. Ember then maintains your chosen temperature for up to 1.5 hours with the Ember Mug² 10 oz and up to 80 perceived in the future. organization provides technology 3. Have A Disaster Recovery Plan. Things happen. When you store minutes with the Ember Mug² 14 oz - so your hot and IT services for area schools, non sensitive data, you need to have a plan in place to recover and restore beverage stays perfect. -profits, churches etc. that need it. that data should anything happen. This doesn’t just include data loss  10 fl oz (295 ml) or 14 fl oz (414 ml) They also accept used technology from malicious attacks but other types of disasters, including hard-  Easy to clean. Mug is safe to hand wash and equipment and monetary donations. ware failure, fire and flood. How is your data being backed up and submersible up to 1 meter in water saved? Who do you notify in the event of a breach? Who do your em-  Built-in battery to maintain your drinking temperature For More Information ployees call in the event of disaster? SmallBiz Technology, Dec. 26, 2019  Includes new, redesigned charging coaster Please Visit: For More Information Visit: www.ember.com https://www.edtechwny.org/ Employee Spotlight Cyber Security Resources Andres Martinez 1. Scan the Dark Web for Your Info: Visit www.mvpworks.com/ App of the Month: MicrosoftSwiftKey Andres is one of the newer darkwebscan and enter your email address to see if any of your members of the MVP Outside information has been involved in a hack. Technician and Project Teams and we are happy to highlight him this month. 2. Check the Strength of Your Password: Visit www.mvpworks.com/ how-secure-is-my-password and enter any password that you may Andres was born in Merida, Venezuela use. Our site will tell you its strength and how long it would take to and moved to Orange County in 2005 moving to Buffalo for college in 2008. hack it. SwiftKey is a Virtual Keyboardand gives you more Andres attended Monroe-Woodbury accurate autocorrect and predictions by learning your High School in Monroe, NY. He then writing style- including the words, phrases and that 3. Knowledge is Power: Don’t forget about MVP University. We attended Buffalo State College and earned his degree in matter to you. Choose from hundreds of free keyboard have ALL webinars we have hosted, EBooks, Tips and Tricks, Videos, Hospitality and Tourism. However, he became very themes - or design your own. Microsoft SwiftKey is packed and More. It is a great place for resources and to learn. interested in technology at a young age stating, “[I have] with features to make typing faster and easier. Say goodbye Www.mvpworks.com/university always been a nerdy kid when it comes to computers and to typos. Microsoft SwiftKey spots your misspellings, missed loved taking stuff apart and putting it back together.” spaces, and missed letters to correct them for you. You can

4. Report Malicious Cyber Activity: If you need to report any also type in five different languages. What Andres enjoys best about working at MVP are the suspicious cyber activity like phishing, hacks, identity theft, Learn More: www.microsoft.com/swiftkey people and the team and everybody works together well. malware, or ransomware the Buffalo Division of Cyber Crime Task Force can be contacted here, www.infragardbuffalo.org Outside of work, Andres has a small home computer lab that he uses to explore new technologies in an environment

where he doesn’t need to worry about getting in trouble if

he breaks something. He also plays in an ultimate frisbee MVP Network Consulting 716.630.1701 www.mvpworks.com league, that is when the world isn’t experiencing a pandemic.

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