Below is the list of blog posts with the “awareness” tag.

How a federal agency’s monitoring gaps turned a containable incident into a three-week nightmare In September 2025, CISA responded to a federal agency breach that security teams could have stopped in hours. Instead, threat actors roamed the network undetected for three weeks. The damage? Multiple compromised servers, web shells planted across the infrastructure, and a persistent foothold that took significant resources to remediate. The root cause wasn’t a zero-day exploit or sophisticated malware.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month has come and gone again. October marks that festive time of year when companies circulate their mandatory think pieces, remind their employees of the dangers of clicking questionable links, and pat themselves on the back and call it a day. Here’s your friendly November reminder to keep your wits about you year-round. A (brief) history of Cybersecurity Awareness Month The Cybersecurity Awareness Month story began as a partnership between an American governmental agency—​the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA)--and the National Cyber Security Alliance non-profit.