It's Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 4 habits worth building

Every October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a useful nudge to revisit the basics. The good news: the fundamentals have not changed, and they work.

Four habits worth building

• Use MFA everywhere, the single highest-impact step you can take, more here
• Think before you click, verify unexpected requests, especially about money or logins
• Use strong, unique passwords, ideally with a password manager so no one has to memorize them
• Keep everything updated, most breaches exploit flaws that already had a fix

Make it stick

Pick one habit and reinforce it this month with your team, then move to the next. Small, consistent reinforcement beats an annual hour-long training nobody remembers. And with the Windows 10 deadline arriving mid-month, October is a fitting time to make sure your systems are current too.