Leading the conversation about Cyber around the Palmetto State...

October 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022

See Yourself in Cyber

CyberSC friends and partners,

Join us as we recognize the 19^th Cybersecurity Awareness Month. CyberSC, 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

We encourage everyone to visit CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month webpage and NCA's 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.

Please help share the word with your constituents, then follow us on social media and join the #SeeYourselfInCyber conversation.

Upcoming Event

This Thursday, government leaders and industry executives will come together to discuss our united mission to cybersecure America.

Register to attend

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

Started by the National Cyber Security Division within the Department of Homeland Security and the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance, the goal of the month is to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity.

The National Cybersecurity Center is participating in this significant month by sharing tips to practice good cyber hygiene. As cyber-attacks and hacks become more severe and are happening exponentially, it’s more important than ever to practice good cyber hygiene.
IT’S SIMPLE – DON’T GET D.U.P.E.D.

Download the Checklist Here

Join us in helping everyone stay safe online this October.

Learn more about Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022

It's not too late to get involved

Become a Champion and receive your toolkit
Use hashtags #BeCyberSmart and #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth on social media!
Use the logos and branding guidelines below

Download logos and branding guidelines

Teach Others How to Stay Safe Online

We’re calling on all security professionals to share their expertise and volunteer to teach your community about online safety.

Even if you don’t think of yourself as a teacher, you have something to share with your friends, neighbors, and other people in your community.

Learn more

The Final Countdown to Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: “It's easy to stay safe online!”

cybersecurity awareness blogs 2022 image

Today’s blog will jumpstart NIST’s celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022! We have a lot in store for October and are looking forward to sharing our work, progress, events, and news with you. This year’s theme is "It's easy to stay safe online" and will cover four key behaviors:

Enabling multi-factor authentication
Using strong passwords and a password manager
Updating software
Recognizing and reporting phishing

As a repeat Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion, NIST is dedicated to promoting a safer online environment and helping others learn and understand the complex world of cybersecurity. We plan to post a series of blogs each week in October that will feature our NIST experts explaining ways to use the four above behaviors to keep people and businesses more secure online. We will also be using our @NISTcyber Twitter account as a vehicle to spread the word about our various cybersecurity and privacy resources (think videos, publications, infographics, fact sheets, websites, and more).

Read More

Now available!

The 2022 Oh Behave! The Annual Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviors Report is available to download!

Behavior. It’s the most tumultuous variable in cybersecurity. So, for the second time in two years we went out and asked some real, living, breathing humans about how they behave on the internet or when using tech.

We’re pleased to present these findings in our Annual Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviors Report 2022 or, as it’s known round here, (best Austin Powers impressions at the ready) the “Oh, Behave!” report.

Download your copy

To ensure you have everything you need for October, here is a reminder of some important items from your toolkit and some newer materials you may have missed!

Toolkit and Press Release

Download Toolkit (PDF)

Download Sample Press Release

NEW! Volunteer Outreach Toolkit

Reach out to schools, businesses, community centers, libraries, boy and girl scout troops or retirement homes to spread advice and tips to people that need it.

Download Tip Sheet (PDF)

Watch our video series