Quanterion Solutions Commits to Growing Global Cybersecurity Success as a Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion
Cybersecurity Awareness Month highlights the growing importance of cybersecurity and empowers individuals and business to stay safe online.
Quanterion Solutions announced its commitment to cybersecurity education by participating in the 21st Annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Founded in 2004, Cybersecurity Awareness Month, held each October, is the world’s foremost initiative aimed at promoting cybersecurity awareness and best practices. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a collaborative effort
among businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities, associations, nonprofit organizations, tribal communities, and individuals committed to educating others about online safety.
From mobile to connected home devices, technology is deeply intertwined in our lives. Emerging technologies have many great benefits for society but with those new technologies come new
opportunities for bad actors to disrupt our online activities at home, school or at work. Cybersecurity Awareness Month aims to highlight some of the emerging challenges that exist in the world of cybersecurity today and provide straightforward, actionable guidance that anyone can follow to create a safe and secure digital world for themselves and their loved ones.
The theme of Cybersecurity Awareness Month is Secure Our World, which encourages all of us to take four easy steps each day to ensure our online safety:
- Understand the benefits of using a password manager and dispelling existing myths around password manager security and ease of use.
- Turn on multifactor authentication on personal devices and business networks.
- Recognize and report phishing – still one of the primary threat actions used by cybercriminals today.
- Install updates on a regular basis and turn on automated updates.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues to build momentum and impact with the goal of providing everyone with the information they need to stay safe and more secure online. Quanterion Solutions is proud to support this critically important online safety awareness and education initiative, led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance.
Cybersecurity Statistics
According to the National Cybersecurity Alliance 2023 Oh Behave! report:
- 84% of people considered online safety a priority
- Only 38% of people use unique passwords for all their accounts
- About a third of respondents began using a password manager after receiving cyber
training - 79% of respondents were familiar with multifactor authentication
- 70% of those who have heard of MFA security measure know how to use it
- Only 36% of people always install software updates when they become available
- 69% of people express confidence in their ability to identify phishing attempts
- 51% of Americans actively report cybercrimes, particularly instances of phishing
For more information about Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 and how to participate in a wide variety of activities, visit cisa.gov/cybersecurity-awareness-month and staysafeonline.org/cybersecurity-awareness-month. You can also follow and use the hashtag #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth and #SecureOurWorld on social media throughout the month.
About the National Cybersecurity Alliance
The National Cybersecurity Alliance is a non-profit organization on a mission to create a more secure, interconnected world. National Cybersecurity Alliance’s core efforts include Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October); Data Privacy Week; and CyberSecure My Business™, which offers webinars, web resources and workshops to help businesses be resistant to and resilient from cyberattacks. For more information, please visit https://staysafeonline.org.
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