Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Installing Updates To Fix Bugs And Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity Awareness Month was established more than 20 years ago to provide resources to enable organizations and their employees to stay safer and more secure online. It is an opportunity to focus on four key behaviors that will help everyone stay secure throughout the year:

• Creating strong passwords and using a password manager
• Enabling multi-factor authentication
• Updating software
• Recognizing and reporting phishing attempts

Each of these key behaviors are necessary to help keep organizations, their clients, and their employees secure.

Securing Digital Assets by Regularly Installing Updates

Many organizations implement multiple layers of authentication to help prevent unauthorized access to their networks by requiring long, unique passwords and long, unique passwords and multi-factor authentication. Organizations can add an extra layer of security to further strengthen their information security framework: a patch management process. Not