Author: Dan Boyd
We made it! We got through October, celebrating Halloween, the arrival of fall, and Cybersecurity Awareness Month all in a mere 31 days. Cybersecurity awareness training is over, the course closed on October 31st. More on that in a bit. October also brought us a rash of compromised student accounts, some targeted phishing emails from those accounts and a bit of chaos in the brag/shame leaderboards I produced to track faculty and staff progress in awareness training. The final leaderboard posted with this article is as accurate as I can make it. You can check it out toward the bottom of the article.
This is the penultimate update to the Cybersecurity Awareness Training Leaderboard, which has yet again been revised to be even more accurate in regard to actual people and correct departments. The final board will post Monday, November 2nd. If you…
This is the week 4 update to the Cybersecurity Awareness Training Leaderboard, which is hopefully even more accurate in regard to actual people and correct departments. As before, please let me know if something is not right with your department…
Welcome to week four of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! This is the last week and we are winding down both cybersecurity awareness training and the Virtual Scavenger Hunt (VSH). All four weeks of the hunt are now available, so if you were waiting so you wouldn’t have to wait, now is your time!
This is the promised update to the Cybersecurity Awareness Leaderboard, hopefully more accurate in regard to actual people and correct departments. As before, please let me know if something is not right with your department or you need to know…
Welcome to week three of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! I was out of the office on short notice last week and didn’t get a chance to put up a leaderboard, but I will do so as soon as I get back in the office on Tuesday.
Welcome to week 2 of the 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
Week 2 brings us the story of Zestix. Zestix invaded more than 50 multinational companies because a few people never turned on multifactor authentication.