CISA Launches Secure Our World Cyber Awareness Campaign — September 19, 2023
CISA debuted the Secure Our World campaign to promote four everyday cybersecurity practices for households, small businesses, and community organisations ahead of Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Executive briefing: On CISA launched Secure Our World, a year-round awareness campaign highlighting simple cybersecurity actions: use strong passwords and a password manager, enable multi-factor authentication, update software, and recognize phishing.
Campaign pillars
- Public service messaging. CISA released national PSAs, toolkits, and educational materials to reach schools, small businesses, and faith-based organisations.
- Community partnerships. The agency is partnering with state, local, tribal, and territorial governments plus private sector groups to distribute tailored resources.
- Focus on resilience. Secure Our World reinforces the administration’s goals to improve basic cyber hygiene across critical infrastructure supply chains.
Actions for organisations
- Incorporate Secure Our World materials into employee awareness programmes and phishing simulations.
- Share the campaign checklist with suppliers and small business partners that lack formal security teams.
- Track participation metrics to demonstrate culture improvements during regulator or customer reviews.
Strategic considerations
- Measurement. Evaluate awareness metrics such as MFA adoption, password manager uptake, and phishing report rates.
- Localization. Adapt materials for multilingual audiences and align with sector-specific compliance requirements.
- Integration. Pair Secure Our World messaging with technical initiatives like zero trust adoption to reinforce executive priorities.
Zeph Tech is embedding Secure Our World toolkits into client awareness campaigns to boost MFA adoption and phishing resilience.