Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Published on October 01, 2024
From mobile to connected home devices, technology is deeply intertwined in our lives. Emerging technologies have many great benefits but with those new technologies come new opportunities for bad actors to disrupt our online activities at home, school or at work. Cybersecurity Awareness Month aims to highlight some of the challenges that exist in the world of cybersecurity today and provide straightforward, actionable guidance that anyone can follow to create a safe and secure digital world for themselves and their loved ones.
The theme of Cybersecurity Awareness Month is Secure Our World, which encourages all of us to take four easy steps each day to ensure our online safety:
- Understand the benefits of using a password manager and dispelling existing myths around password manager security and ease of use.
- Turn on multifactor authentication on personal devices and business networks.
- Recognize and report phishing – still one of the primary threat actions used by cybercriminals today.
- Install updates on a regular basis and turn on automated updates.
Need more help? Watch the recent Scam Stoppers Training presented by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in South San Francisco.