Beyond October: Why Cybersecurity Awareness Needs To Be A Daily Habit, Not An Annual Event
ET Insights, Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
Every October, organizations worldwide observe Cybersecurity Awareness Month with renewed vigour. Emails go out reminding employees about password hygiene and not clicking on unknown links.
'Don't open emails from strange sources, do not download attachments, etc.' Training modules are printed out and mass-distributed. Posters are stuck in office corridors warning about phishing attacks. Then November arrives, Diwali season, followed by Christmas, and the cleanup starts. Posters are removed, junk emails (ha ha, those unread security reminders) are deleted, and everything goes back to normal until - yes - next October. Or, a cyberattack that shakes up the top-level management.
The problem is that cybercriminals do not take eleven months off.