October is known as Cyber Security Awareness Month and in the US it is commonly referred as National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). This is a global initiative to raise awareness on emerging Cyber threats and best practices to defend against them, while educating the public and the private sector, on how to tackle cyber security challenges in a fast-evolving digital ecosystem.
‘Security’ is the enabler for evolving and scaling up in a secure manner, while minimising the risk of being affected at an irrecoverable level.
Cyber Security is promoted at an impressive rate during this month, with several awareness campaigns taking place. Typically, these campaigns focus on giving advice around having best-in-class practices when it comes to Cyber Security, sharing thoughts around exposure to unnecessary risk and try to communicate the benefits from having a Cyber Resilience strategy in place, while discussions around defence-in-depth tend to spawn recommendations around different products and services that might help an organisation’s security practice.
To achieve this, during October several events take place to engage and educate the information security community, while focusing on sharing knowledge, lessons learned, and forward-looking ideas.
