By: Gene Fredriksen, Security Strategy Consultant October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual reminder about the importance of protecting yourself from online threats — and offering a chance to sharpen your cybersecurity skills. This marks the 20th year of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and I remember how the first efforts of this initiative primarily revolved around educational posters and speaking to staff at department meetings. As Halloween is also in October, the first awareness campaigns loosely tied into a scare theme by focusing on the dreadful things that would occur if a...