Day 1 – We Survived!
We survived!
We made it!
We got through October!
The month of October, where cybersecurity professionals and organizations all around the month “celebrate” Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Okay, why all the big hoopla? This one month of the year, organizations focus on cybersecurity with lunch and learns, special events and possibly invite a cybersecurity professional to discuss cybersecurity tips, techniques, and best practices with the IT teams and the business. In October, I delivered more presentations in that one month versus the past six months. There is always a great demand for cybersecurity awareness presentations. Still, honestly, I hope to talk myself out of my career, where everyone is cybersecurity aware and develops the habits to be secure online. However, I recognize that we will always need security within our society.
Which, after October, it now brings us to November. In the USA, November is the time for Thanksgiving and preparing for the upcoming holiday seasons.
It’s also the month called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo! The month where a nonprofit group (https://nanowrimo.org/) encourages writers to write that novel they’ve always wanted to write but needed a purpose. While I’m far from writing a novel, I am working toward writing an eBook supported by blogs and other writings over the next couple of months.
There are various topics I hope to write about in the next month. Those topics are still being formulated but will surround my daily activity as a security awareness advocate, including security awareness, ransomware research, education, and how to run an effective security awareness program.
I’m looking forward to writing more this month as this has always been a challenging skill set I’ve wanted to improve. We are primarily aware that repetition helps improve a skill or capability. If you do something repeatedly, maybe for a total of 67 times, it will be an action or skill that becomes ingrained into oneself.
From time to time, we need to be able to step outside of our comfort zones. It allows us to grow and learn from our mistakes. I know we’ve all made mistakes in life, and it’s vital that we learn from them. I feel that we learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes.
While this month, I will be writing more than just a couple of hundred words for a comment opportunity, but something more substantial with an action item or a reflection item. Now while you’re thinking, “what is this guy, a college professor?” why, yes, I am an adjunct college professor, and that’s your homework for the month. Do something to step out of your comfort zone, review a mistake or series of mistakes from a previous project, and examine where you went wrong.
When I play Chess, I know I’m continually reviewing the games that I lose, so I can see where I made mistakes or blunders. Ahh, the game of Chess reminds me so much of cybersecurity. However, that’s another story.
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