Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024

October is celebrated as the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Starting this year, the new theme of Cybersecurity Awareness Month is “Secure Our World”, with the main messaging revolving around four key cybersecurity best practices:

  1. Understanding the benefits of using a strong password, a password manager and dispelling existing myths around password manager security and ease of use.
  2. Turning on multifactor authentication on personal devices and business networks.
  3. Recognizing and reporting phishing – still one of the primary threat actions used by cybercriminals today.
  4. Installing updates on a regular basis and turning on automated updates.

Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign @Mount

To celebrate this year’s cybersecurity awareness month on-campus, the Center for Cybersecurity@Mount have several activities lined up for you including:

Cybersecurity Awareness training and learning resources for faculty, staff, students and external community

(Click here to access the Training and Learning resource page)

On-campus Cybersecurity Awareness booths run by MSMC cybersecurity majors

(Click here to see booth locations and schedule)

Cybersecurity Talk 1

Cybersecurity Talk 2

Title: How to excel in an Information Security career beyond your technical skills
Speaker: Russ Gritzo
Cybersecurity Program Manager
Strategic Management Solutions LLC
When: Thursday, October 10 at 4 PM
Location: Zoom

Click here to view the speaker bio

Title: Managing Cybersecurity Risk
Speaker:
Tony Cusato, Cybersecurity Consultant, IBM

When: Thursday, October 17 at 4 PM
Location: AQU 062

Click here to view the speaker bio

Open to current students and Alumni
When: Wednesday, October 9 at 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: AQU Atrium
Hosted by MSMC Career Center