
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Why “Awareness” Isn’t the Same as “Readiness”
This year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme, from the National Cybersecurity Alliance, is “Don’t Make It Easy for Them”, a call to build small, consistent security habits that make life harder for attackers. It’s a good message. It’s also, on its own, can be seen as an incomplete one. Every October, organizations run their annual phishing training, publish a blog post about strong passwords, and check the “security awareness” box for another year. Employees are a

