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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: What Actually Works

One Month Won't Save You — But It Can Start Something That Does In October 2020, during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a major hospital chain — Universal Health Services — was fighting off one of the largest ransomware attacks in U.S. healthcare history. The Ryuk ransomware hit over 400 facilities. Staff

Carl B. Johnson Apr 02, 2021 6 min read
Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: What Actually Works

Every October, Organizations Pretend to Care About Security Last October, a mid-sized healthcare company ran a poster campaign for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Inspirational quotes about passwords. A lunch-and-learn nobody attended. Two weeks later, a threat actor walked through their defenses using a single phishing email that an accounts payable clerk

Carl B. Johnson Dec 14, 2019 6 min read