Why should you be a National Cyber Security Awareness Month champion?
Being a champion is a way for you to officially show your support for National Cyber Security Awareness Month and your commitment to cybersecurity. Being a champion is easy and does not require any financial support. Champions can include:
- Industry: companies of any size.
- Education: K-12 (including individual schools), colleges and universities, school districts, departments of education and school boards.
- Non-profit organizations: community-based, statewide, national and international, trade and professional associations
- Government: Federal, State, Local, and Tribal including municipalities, state agencies and smaller units within state or local governments.
As a champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, your organization will be asked to participate in NCSAM by reaching and educating customers, citizens, employees and communities through events, activities and/or other campaign distribution methods.
In return, the NCSA will display your logo on our Web site and list any NCSAM events that you submit on our calendar.
National Cyber Security Awareness Month Mission Statement
National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October since 2001, is a national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to protect their computers and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure.
Cybersecurity requires vigilance 365 days per year. However, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), the primary drivers of NCSAM, coordinate to shed a brighter light in October on what home users, schools, businesses and governments need to do in order to protect their computers, children, and data.
Ultimately, our cyber infrastructure is only as strong as the weakest link. No individual, business, or government entity is solely responsible for cybersecurity. Everyone has a role and everyone needs to share the responsibility to secure their part of cyber space and the networks they use. The steps we take may differ based on what we do online and our responsibilities. However, everyone needs to understand how their individual actions have a collective impact on cybersecurity.
National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October since 2001, is a national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to protect their computers and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure.
Champions of National Cyber Security Awareness Month recognize that individuals, organizations, business and government all share the responsibility to secure their part of cyber space and the networks they use. The steps we take may differ based on what we do online and our responsibilities. However, we all need to understand how individual actions have a collective impact on cyber security.
You can also register as an champion by printing out the attached form and sending this completed form to Joyce Perhac via email at joyce@staysafeonline.org or fax at (412) 372-8136.
Note: The Board of Directors of the National Cyber Security Alliance reserves the right to review organizations wishing to become champions.
