Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024: Doing Our Part to #SecureOurWorld

The 20th Cybersecurity Awareness Month is upon us, and we're taking the month to spotlight resources and insights to help you improve cyber resilience and build a culture of security.

This year's theme is "Secure Our World," highlighting this global need to do our part, and we all play a part in protecting data and critical assets. Cyber resilience is a collective effort, requiring support from infrastructure and security teams alike. Pure Storage is not a security company, but we do store customers' sensitive information and critical data-which makes data security and resilience our responsibility, too.

Check back throughout the month and explore these resources we've published here on the Pure Storage Blog.

Cybersecurity Month's Key Objectives in 2024

This year, Cybersecurity Awareness Month has identified some key behaviors to help individuals and organizations bolster resilience:

1. Using strong passwords and a password manager. Credentials are a common way for attackers to enter networks and do their worst. This simple yet often overlooked aspect of identity management is everyone's responsibility. Learn more in "Why Identity Is the New Network Perimeter."
2. Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA). This and other security controls are aspects of zero trust architectures, which should be looked at as a journey, not a destination.
3. Reporting phishing and known or suspected security incidents. Knowing what and how to report suspicious emails or texts cannot be overemphasized-especially with unexpected new threats from AI-powered actors, scareware, and wiperware.
4. Updating software regularly and installing the latest security patches on devices-collectively known as data hygiene.

These are all incredibly important foundations and behaviors to implement in any enterprise-but they're also just the tip of the spear in defensive strategies. The backbone of cyber resilience comes from a foundation: a data-resilient security architecture deeply integrated with tech partners who can uphold the latest standards and frameworks.

Let's dig in.

Resilience Starts at the Storage Level-Period

But not all security architectures are created equal. We've dispelled some myths about air gaps, discussed security analytics and SIEM systems, and gone in-depth into the benefits of data bunkers -including a sample architecture to get you started. Be sure to check out these articles as well:

Ransomware Resources

With security-related incidents such as ransomware becoming the top cause of data outages, security and IT operations professionals must work together to improve the resiliency of their IT environment. Become a ransomware expert with:

Data Compliance

Compliance standards can't replace security best practices, but they absolutely complement them and create a baseline for resilience and prevention. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) encourages security and IT teams to work together to reduce the impact of attacks and even prevent outages and permanent data loss.

CISO Insights and Expertise

If cybersecurity is a team sport, the CISO is often the captain. Knowing their top concerns can be invaluable to keeping the entire organization cyber smart and secure. Check out:

We don't just prioritize security for one month a year, and we definitely don't just help you store your data. Security is built into everything we do-and all of our products. Discover recently launched cyber resilience features from Pure Storage to give enterprise IT even more recovery and security capabilities, including:

Check back as we feature more webinars, blogs, and guides to help keep your company's most valuable assets safe.

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