🎃 October at TOPdesk Community: Cyber Security Awareness Month (and a little Halloween fun)
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, and this year's theme , set by the National Cybersecurity Alliance, is "Don't Make It Easy for Them."
The theme comes down to four habits, the Core 4: strong passwords, multi-factor authentication, recognizing and reporting scams, and keeping your software up to date. Nothing fancy, just the stuff that actually works.
Don't take my word for it: Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report looked at over 22,000 breaches worldwide and found that exploiting unpatched software is now the #1 way attackers get in, even ahead of stolen credentials, which still show up in 39% of breaches. So yeah, worth ten minutes of your month.
Here's what's coming your way this month:
- A post on each Core 4 habit
- A running "Horror Stories from the Helpdesk" thread — because we've all got one 😉
- A Core 4 self-check later this month, just to see where you stand
- And more...
Let's start easy: how many of the Core 4 habits have you already got covered?