We hope this holiday season finds you healthy and happy. Please remember to stay focused on safety and loss control throughout the holidays and winter season. Specifically, automobile travel, building maintenance, and cybersecurity. Below and attached are general tips you may find of assistance. As always, feel free to contact Jim Hale or myself regarding CORSA loss control resources. We wish you, your peers, friends and family a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year. We look forward to seeing you in 2024. Auto: Did you know in the US automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for people ages 1-54? You can find Tips for Driving Safely During the Holiday Season at: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/holiday-road-safety/index.html Property: As a pool CORSA has all too many high severity losses every year due to freezing and bursting pipes, slips and falls and just general hazards caused by winter weather. In fact losses occurring in the winter months accounts for much of our yearly property losses as a pool. Please take a look at the attached information on freezing pipes and an article from Forbes for guidance on how to minimize your winter property and liability risks. If you would like some additional information on winter and other hazards, here is an interesting website: https://disastersafety.org/winter-weather/nine-budget-friendly-ways-to-prepa... Cyber: Attackers strike the most during holidays and weekends when companies are vulnerable and under staffed. ⚠️ Attacks are more common during non-business hours, mostly due to less staff available to protect the company. ⚠️ Large, profitable companies tend to be the main targets but small businesses with less protection are also a target. ⚠️The attacks that occur during non-business hours take longer to investigate and resolve, which may slow response and notification. Action Items Protect your organization with these practices: ✅ Review cyber incident response plans, resiliency plans, and communications plans. ✅ Reiterate cybersecurity user awareness and training program tips that include guidance on how to report incidents. ✅ Tune endpoint protection, regularly update, and enable real-time detection for antivirus software on all hosts. ✅ Make (and test restore) an offline backup of your data. ✅ Confirm multi-factor authentication (MFA) is working as intended for all services possible. ✅ Confirm software and operating systems are up to date to download the latest security patches. ✅ Scan for open and unused ports and remove any application not deemed necessary for day-to-day operations. ✅ Add an email banner to emails received from outside your organization to warn employees. More Information 🔒 FBI - Ransomware Awareness for Holidays and Weekends https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa21-243a 🔒 Why do cyber-attacks increase during holidays? - Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/2022/12/why-do-cyber-attacks-increase-during-h... Frank Hatfield CORSA Risk Manager fhatfield@ccao.org<mailto:fhatfield@ccao.org> 614-560-1474 614-220-0209 Fax www.corsa.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.corsa.org/__;!!Op5JcThCjWm-UA!zzz1QnDE...> [cid:image001.png@01DA34C1.D162B350] “ The leader in providing Ohio Counties with exceptional value, service, and protection of assets.” CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message (including any attachments) is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this message and all attachments.
