Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025
October is celebrated as the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Starting this year, the new theme of Cybersecurity Awareness Month is “Building A Cyber Strong America”, with the main messaging revolving around four key cybersecurity best practices:
- Understanding the benefits of using a strong password, a password manager and dispelling existing myths around password manager security and ease of use.
- Turning on multifactor authentication on personal devices and business networks.
- Recognizing and reporting phishing – still one of the primary threat actions used by cybercriminals today.
- 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
Cybersecurity Talk 1
Cybersecurity Talk 2
Title: Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges and Security Considerations
Speaker: Dr. Tianyu Wang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Mercy University
When: Thursday, October 16 at 4 PM
Location: AQU 55
Title: Emerging Trends in Cybersecurity
Speaker:
Tony Cusato, Manager, Global Cyber Security Risk Management, IBM
When: Thursday, October 23 at 4 PM
Location: AQU 55
Open to current students and Alumni
When: Wednesday, October 15 at 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: Guzman Multipurpose Room
Hosted by MSMC’s Center for Academic and Career Services