Your Account,
Your Responsibility
Your USEK account is your responsibility:
- DO NOT share your password with others (e.g., your colleagues and family members)
- DO NOT use another person’s account to login to USEK services (e.g., WiFi and other)
- USE strong passwords or passphrases that are hard to guess (e.g., a combination of lower/upper case characters, numbers, and symbols)
- CHANGE your password frequently (e.g., twice a year)
- ENABLE multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- CONTACT the EITS department whenever you notice a weird activity in your account (e.g., unrecognized access) via it.servicedesk@usek.edu.lb
Beware of Spammers
Think Before You Click
Stay safe when surfing the web and checking your emails:
- Always verify the sender's email address
- DO NOT reply to an email with a sender who is impersonating another person.
- DO NOT open links without checking the sender (i.e., verify the email address) and the URL (e.g., copy the URL to a text editor and check if it points to a legitimate and secure destination)
- DO NOT reply to users sending you impersonal messages, even if they are your friends and/or ex-colleagues.
- For example, if someone asks you the following: “please send me your phone number”, OR “please give me a call asap on this number ...”, "I need your help. Please transfer me money to this account ...." ==> DO NOT fall for this trick.
Insider Threat
What is an insider threat?
According to the US Department of HHS:
"A malicious insider threat is a current or former employee, contractor, or other business partner who has or had authorized access to an organization’s network, system, or data and intentionally misused that access in a manner that negatively impacts the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the information or information system."
Threat indicators include suspicious behaviors such as:
- Disclosing or removing sensitive, proprietary, or classified information without approval;
- Unexplained reproduction or transmission of classified or sensitive information;
- Attempted access to classified or sensitive information beyond scope of duties
- Aggressively trying to get access to information systems and data that they have no “need to know”.
Be aware and report any incident to the EITS Department
See Something?
Hear Something?
Say Something!
Please notify us if you or someone you know, has fallen victim to a scam: it.security@usek.edu.lb