July 2020 Newsletter
July 14, 2020
Financial Institutions & COVID-19:
A Cyber Safe Reopening
The number of scams during this pandemic are on the rise. Scammers are continuing to find creative ways to target users through phishing, vishing and smishing attacks. On July 9, CyberHawaii hosted a webinar discussing what some of Hawaii financial institutions have implemented to establish cyber safe practices for their employees and customers.

Our panelists included: Vance Jones , Executive Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, Bank of Hawaii; Joel Kumabe , Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Hawaii State Federal Credit Union; and Michael Nishida , Senior Vice President, First Hawaiian Bank. The webinar was moderated by Jodi Ito , Chief Information Security Officer, University of Hawai'i.

If you were not able to attend the webinar live, you can watch the full video and access the presentation at the links below:
Mahalo to our partners
Hawaii Bankers Association, Hawaii Credit Union League,
Hawaii Island Economic Development Board,
Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Better Business Bureau,
Small Business Development Center Hawaii,
Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce, Hawaii Business Roundtable
and the Kapolei Chamber of Commerce.
Cyber Essentials Toolkit
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published the first two chapters of its Cyber Essentials Toolkit . Each chapter is designed to breakdown the CISA Cyber Essentials into sizeable actions for IT and C-suite leadership to build and implement cyber readiness in their organization. Below are links to the first two chapters:
  • Chapter 1 focuses on you, the Cyber Leader and the task of driving your organization’s cybersecurity strategy, while investing, implementing and sustaining a culture of cybersecurity.
  • Chapter 2 focuses on your organizations staff and developing their security awareness and vigilance.
Report A Scam
CyberHawaii encourages you to immediately report scams received via email, text message, phone call, etc. to the FBI , Federal Trade Commission or Better Business Bureau . We would also like to ask you to send us a detailed description of the scam received to  cyberhi@cyberhawaii.org  and we will alert our CyberHawaii members of incidences occurring within our community. For a list of reported scams, visit CyberHawaii’s at the link below:
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