This DAP highlights – Synagogues Ramp up Security for First High Holidays Since Oct. 7 / 3rd Annual FCIA Interfaith Resiliency Conference, Fairfax County, VA / Suspicious mail containing white powder sent to election offices in at least 16 states. DAP also has More Faith-Based Stories and Select All-Hazard Stories. These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 18 July 2023
Faith-Based Security Headlines
These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against, and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
CSOs Eye Challenges and Solutions for Nonprofits
ASIS International’s Security Management published CSOs Eye Challenges and Solutions for Nonprofits. The article cites how cyberattacks attacks on nonprofit organizations can be fueled by hate, such as hacking into religious leaders’ social media accounts to post anti-Semitic messages or pro-Nazi propaganda. Others, meanwhile, are primarily motivated by money. Unfortunately, criminals are increasingly aware that unlike for-profit or government organizations, the data housed by a nonprofit’s servers or access to its systems and accounts might be less tightly guarded.
Some possible solutions given are:
- Remain up to date with deploying patches
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication on all systems
- Conducting staff training that refreshes cybersecurity training
- Encrypting all devices that can host personally identifiable information (PII)
- Purging PII data once it is no longer needed
- Reach out to experts
- Invest in cyber insurance
Analyst Comment:
Security Management also reported that malware and cyberattacks against nonprofit organizations and their data have been increasing in recent years.
Faith-Based Organizations (FBO), like all nonprofit organizations, should consider increasing their cybersecurity. A malware or ransomware attack can be catastrophic. In June, CNN reported that a cyberattack was a factor in a Faith-Based hospital’s permanent closing.
Many of the possible solutions listed above do not require a great deal of time or money and are a good start for improving cybersecurity.
The Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post blog regularly provides cybersecurity items.
Additional cybersecurity resources can be found on the FB-ISAO website. Cybersecurity Resources – FB-ISAO (faithbased-isao.org)
More Faith-Based Stories
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Northeast El Paso church vandalized, police and diocese investigating
Lower Manhattan Church Vandalized In Latest Series of Attacks
CA: BPD asking for assistance in identifying alleged vandalism suspect
AR: Man’s Truck Stolen from Church Parking Lot in Jonesboro
OH Federal charges brought against ‘transgender’ activist who vandalized pregnancy center
OH: Neo-Nazis harass attendees at Equality Toledo’s Love Fest celebration
CA: S.F. church, threatened after drag events, hit with anti-LGBTQ protest
AZ: Local church protests Bookmans drag story hour
Neo-Nazis are giddy over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s antisemitic COVID-19 conspiracy theory
FL: ‘Church’ made $1m selling bleach as cure for HIV and autism: prosecutors
Manaipur: ‘In 2 nights, 246 churches were burnt down’
Christian leaders, organizations say attacks on community, churches pre-planned (Kashmir Media Service)
Newlywed militant suspects blamed in Indonesia church attack
‘We’re stuck:’ A Church is in need of lawn equipment after robberies at multiple cemeteries
Iran’s morality police to resume headscarf patrols
Haiti in ‘desperate’ security crisis as Catholic leaders urge search for solutions
Select All-Hazards Stories
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FBI: Texas, Rest of U.S. Experiencing More Cyber Attacks
CISA Develops Factsheet for Free Tools for Cloud Environments
Held for Ransom: How Handheld and Mobile Devices Leave Organizations Exposed to Ransomware
MOVEit Hack: Number of Impacted Organizations Exceeds 340
Adobe security advisory (AV23-414)
Dell security advisory (AV23-413)
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