October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year’s theme is Security is everyone’s job. 

You play an important part in keeping yourself and our campus cyber secure, regardless of your job title. It’s not about making the one perfect decision. It’s about building good cyber habits and repeating them every day. These small cyber decisions help protect your personal and UW–Madison’s data.

To make learning more fun, the Cybersecurity team has:

• created a daily Cyber Wordle-style game
• provided some easy tips about protecting your data online
• pointed to some simple tools and websites that can help reduce risk of a cyber threat

Learn more about these secrets, tools and sites on the Cybersecurity Awareness Month page.

Join us for these Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) events

You can also register for numerous Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) events discussing cybersecurity safety, surviving the AI apocalypse, and more.

BTAA Cybersecurity Awareness Month events

• Monday, Oct. 1, noon to 1 p.m.: Big Ten Academic Alliance Cybersecurity Gameshow 2026
• Tuesday, Oct. 6, noon to 1 p.m.: How to Survive the AI Apocalypse
• Thursday, Oct. 8, noon to 1 p.m.: Big Ten Academic Alliance CISO Panel
• Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.: The CIS AI Journey: What Worked, What We Adjusted, What We’re Still Figuring Out
• Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.: State of Critical Infrastructure
• Thursday, Oct. 29, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.: An Introduction to the Evolving Federal Research Cybersecurity Landscape and What it Means for University IT Teams