VICENZA, Italy -- October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and 509th Signal Battalion invites the Vicenza Military Community to participate as they launch a comprehensive awareness program across the community.
In cooperation with U.S. Army Europe, the 509th has developed a series of events and initiatives to help bring focus to specific topics. Cybersecurity Awareness Month has been broken into four phases, each bringing a targeted message to a targeted audience.
Phase I: Leadership Awareness. Stressing command involvement and understanding as well participation in cybersecurity efforts.
Phase II: Individual Awareness. Stressing the importance of cybersecurity to the individual and utilization of best practices to increase security.
Phase III: Group and collective training. Assisting in reestablishing existing procedures and avoiding cybersecurity attacks on targets of opportunity.
Phase IV: Home and family cybersecurity. Emphasizing personal cybersecurity best practices and their effect on professional life, protecting home and the importance of firewalls, antivirus and antispyware used when away from work.
Local information management officers will receive emails with a "Tech Tip of the Week" to distribute to their commands. Representatives from 509th will be conducting awareness activities outside of the Post Exchange here. There will also be training Oct. 17 in Building 300A on Caserma Ederle. The class will be on Social Networking Systems awareness and is open to U.S. Army Europe personnel and their family members. The training runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with a lunch break.
The 509th asks that community members take some time this month to discuss these topics with coworkers and family. Everyone is a part of the fight for cybersecurity, protecting our critical infrastructure down to family members on social media. The 509th wants everyone to know that Cybersecurity is a team sport and everyone has a role to play.
Community members who have questions should contact the 509th Sig. Bn. Cybersecurity Division at DSN 637-7525 or 637-2527.
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