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Hey everyone, I'm Drex and. This is the 2 Minute Drill, where I do three stories twice a week, all for the 229 cyber and risk community here at This Week Health. Today's 2 Minute Drill is brought to you by ORDR, the Asset Inventory and Intelligence Platform. Did you know that you can know everything about everything on your network?

Every vulnerability, every risk, every user, everything in real time. You can find out more at order. net slash healthcare. Thanks for joining me today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. Happy almost Thanksgiving. It's the time of the year we're all hoping to take some time off and relax and spend time with family and friends.

And it's the time of the year that worries me the most. Because if this year is like previous years, the cyber thugs have been saving up their nastiest work for the long weekends like the one that's coming up. There's an article from InfoSecurity Magazine with a reminder that hackers love weekends and holidays with 86 percent of ransomware attacks.

happening over long weekends. So I'll say to you what I always used to say to my teams as we move into the holidays. Let's make sure we've updated all of our incident run books, that we have printed copies, that those printed copies include all the phone numbers for our partners and the exec team and law enforcement.

And the IT recall roster. And let's double check all the on call teams to make sure that they actually are prepared to be called if we need them. And I hope nothing happens. But you know, Boy Scouts and be prepared and all that. There's also a good LinkedIn post from my friend Dr. Dennis Lieber on cyber prep for the holidays.

I'll post that link in the comments. And one more piece of advice before we roll into the holidays. There's a story on thisweekhealth. com slash news that you should read from Cyber News on how to safely use public Wi Fi networks. Of course, the safest way to use public Wi Fi is to not use it, but I know you do it.

We all do it. We're out and about. We need to send pictures of the ugly sweater you might buy, but you're in the basement at Nordstrom's and there's not a signal. So you jump onto the free Wi Fi. It's okay. Be safe about it. Here's three quick tips. Ask the staff for the name of the Wi Fi. You'd be surprised how often bad guys set up fake evil twin networks to look just like the real Wi Fi, but they're really just trying to find a way to steal your information, so make sure you're on the right network.

Avoid sensitive transactions. The Conoco Wi Fi is not the place where you should be trying to pay your Amex bill. Do that at home. And once you're done with the free Wi Fi, forget the network. Most of us have our machines or our, or our handheld set up to auto connect to networks we've connected to in the past.

And it's probably also a good time for you to go back and look at that long list of networks that you've saved and clean that mess up. By the way, you can read all these stories and a whole bunch of others at thisweekhealth. com slash news. And if you want to see all the Two Minute Drill episodes, all of those are at thisweekhealth.

com slash unhack. Today's Two Minute Drill was brought to you by Order. Do you really know who all your devices are talking to? You can. Bring some Order to your enterprise. Find out more at order. net slash healthcare. That's it for today's Two Minute Drill. Thanks for being here. Have a great holiday. Stay a little paranoid.

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