Email Security Awareness: Think Before You Click!

Throughout this pandemic, cybersecurity threat actors have been ramping up their game, and email phishing messages are on the rise. Please be careful with all email messages and think before you click.

Security awareness provider Knowbe4, defines Phishing as follows: "Phishing is the process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity using bulk email which tries to evade spam filters."

For example, you receive a message from your principal and he or she asks, “Do you have a minute?” Did this message really come from your principal? Did you check, or did you take the bait and respond?

Think before you click on that next email message! Is it a legitimate message? Were you expecting it? Is the message truly from who you think it is? Does it convey a sense of urgency? Was it sent to a group of people, including some that you do not know? Was it sent at an odd time of day? Does it make you uneasy?

If you do run into a message that is truly a phishing message, please submit this message to Google. Click the three vertical dots (the "snowman" as it is called in some of our schools) in the upper-right corner of your Gmail browser window:

There are plenty of threat actors around the globe who would gladly take advantage of others. Do not be a victim of email fraud. Think about that next click as you hurry through email messages.