10/18/2025
💡 October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! 🔒
Don’t sleep on your network security! Now’s the time to tighten up defenses, train your users, and protect your data from modern threats.
A little prevention goes a long way toward keeping your business safe and running smoothly. 🖥️⚙️Let’s make sure your systems are secure and your users are informed!
This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re calling on the government and private sector to play their part to secure our nation’s critical infrastructure: go.dhs.gov/iPk
“Whenever critical infrastructure is disrupted, so are the businesses and communities that depend on these vital services,” said Acting CISA Director Madhu Gottumukkala. “That’s why this year CISA is prioritizing the security and resilience small and medium businesses, and state, local, tribal, and territorial government (SLTT), whose systems and services sustain us every day. This includes things like clean water, secure transportation, quality healthcare, secure financial transactions, rapid communications, and more. However great or small—every organization that touches critical infrastructure is vital to ensuring uninterrupted services to America’s communities.”
Critical infrastructure owners and operators should take these steps to safeguard critical infrastructure:
· Teach employees to avoid phishing scams: Recognizing and reporting suspicious emails and links may prevent cyberattacks.
· Require strong passwords: Long, unique passwords make accounts harder to breach.
· Require multifactor authentication: Adds an extra layer of protection if a password is compromised.
· Update software: Keeps systems protected against known vulnerabilities.
· Use logging on your systems: Log activity so your team can monitor signs that threat actors may be trying to access your systems.
· Back up data: Incidents happen, but when you back up critical information, recovery is faster and less stressful.
· Encrypt data: Encrypting your data and devices strengthens your defense against attacks.
· Get a .gov domain: Government entities can get a .gov domain for additional security.
· Share cyber incident info with CISA.
View our Cybersecurity Awareness Month website to learn how you can strengthen your organization against cyber threats: cisa.gov/cybersecurity-awareness-month
Promote your participation this October! Our toolkit provides tips on how to promote Cybersecurity Awareness Month and develop your own campaign to encourage essential cybersecurity actions that can help protect your organization, your clients or customers, and the nation’s critical infrastructure: cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cybersecurity-awareness-month-toolkit
