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To secure our world, Cybersecurity Awareness Month encourages four steps that make it easy to stay safe online. As a CISO, my team and I advocate for these practices constantly within our organization. If you are a security practitioner looking to bolster cybersecurity awareness, here’s a brief look at how we explain these steps to help make staying safe online easier. Before we dive in, making cybersecurity practices relatable and clear is key to the adoption at any organization.

Calendars are great and serve a wide range of purposes. Paper calendars, digital calendars, calendars with Garfield or Peanuts comics, they all have the ability remind us of birthdays, the first day of school, garbage pick-up day and holidays. So, let’s make sure your calendar has October marked down as Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

A watering hole attack is a type of cyberattack in which a threat actor targets an organization by hacking a website often visited by an employee in order to infect the employee’s device with malware. Once the device of one employee is infected, the threat actor targets other members of the organization and steals their confidential information.