[CDP-development] October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month: See Yourself in Cyber!

[Masse, Theresa]

FYSA

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Join us as we recognize the 19th Cybersecurity Awareness Month.  CISA and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) are asking you to “See Yourself in Cyber” Cybersecurity is important for all Americans, and CISA and NCA are sharing information and resources to help every one of us recognize and reduce the risk of cybersecurity threats.



Throughout October, we will focus on what it means to “See Yourself in Cyber,” whether you are already working in cybersecurity, or you’re a vendor or supplier, an infrastructure owner or operator, a student, a job seeker, or an individual who uses the internet for work, school, or entertainment.



  *   For individuals and families, we encourage you to See Yourself taking action to stay safe online. That means enabling basic cyber hygiene practices: update your software, think before you click, have good strong passwords or a password keeper, and enable multi-factor authentication (meaning you need “More Than A Password!”) on all your sensitive accounts.
  *   For those considering joining the cyber community, we encourage you to See Yourself joining the cyber workforce. We’ll be talking with leaders from across the country about how we can build a cybersecurity workforce that is bigger, more diverse and dedicated to solving the problems that will help keep the American people safe.
  *   For our partners in industry, we encourage you to See Yourself as part of the solution. That means putting operational collaboration into practice, working together to share information in real-time, and reducing risk and build resilience from the start to protect America’s critical infrastructure and the systems that Americans rely on every day.



Individuals and organizations can improve their cybersecurity efforts through the following key actions:

  *   Recognize and Report Phishing
  *   Update Your Software
  *   Use Strong Passwords
  *   Enable Multi-Factor Authentication



In addition, this year CISA is doing things differently, hitting the road to go straight to the American people. In fact, CISA Director Jen Easterly will travel to cybersecurity summits and events across the country in to promote cyber hygiene and simple but effective ways to keep Americans safe online.



We encourage everyone to visit CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month<https://www.cisa.gov/cybersecurity-awareness-month> web page and NCA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month<https://staysafeonline.org/programs/cybersecurity-awareness-month/> website, to get more information on how to get involved, as well as tools and resources they can use to help promote cybersecurity through October.

Theresa A. Masse
Cyber Security Advisor, Region 10 (Oregon)
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Department of Homeland Security
Phone: (503) 930-5671
Email: theresa.masse at cisa.dhs.gov<mailto:theresa.masse at cisa.dhs.gov>

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