Cyber Security Month: What is it?

4 min readOct 23, 2019

To enrich with stronger and unique passwords, the search engine giant comes up with Cyber Security Awareness Month. Know what best you can do for keeping your data safe!

With the assistance provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the authority has recently title October as ‘National Cybersecurity Awareness Month’. This philanthropic exercise has been planned by both government and industrial institution so that they could work together and ward-off the challenges of cyber-attack through which large chunks of data gets grilled and mishandled. Adding to this, search engine giant Google comes up with initiative such as the ‘Password Checkup’ feature. This will be regarding, Google account password manager, easy and secured accessibility of Google maps, auto-delete of YouTube videos, and easy way to remove Google assistance activity.

According to the image mentioned above, one of the Google employees mentions the initiative over Google Community. Below the description, there you could also find a poll where you can up vote for the activity. Click Here.

What is CyberSecurity Month?

According to European Union, ECSM or European Cyber Security Management System is the annual awareness campaign that place in October across Europe. This practice is experienced for leveraging safe and secured operations over the internet and how one should keep all data, files, personal information, business information, transaction and many others away from the paws of a cyber-demon. You may go and check all the details here. To make the activity a sheer success, you may also get involved in lists of activities. Starting up with registration, taking part in the event and then you may also provide support to ECSM.

What does CyberSecure Month teaches us?

1. Google Password Security Changes

Being the search engine giant-Google has one of the greatest security measures for all its users. Be it using a Google account or implying the password. Google has taken charge of everything. It has one the more secured and robust security channels. Amidst of Cybersecurity month, Google is integrating that password checkup into a password checkup manager. Through a single click, this has the potency to check all the 4 billion credentials that have been saved. Not only this, but this is also keeping track of your password, whether it has been used by any other individual or any business. This functionality will also warn you if you are having a weaker password strength. Later in the year, functionality will all be integrated directly into the Google Chrome browser, bring better protection for all its users too.

2. Types of the password being used

It has been through facts that people try to trick the cybercriminals by using simple and un-authentic passwords. Credentials like pass1234, 12345, letmein are the most easy and holed password which cybercriminals plays around with it. According to reports shared by online security, survey-Harris Poll claims that only 15% use password manager, 36% prefer in writing down the password for keeping it safe and 66% use the same password over multiple platforms.

Javvad Malik, a security awareness advocate and follower of Cybersecurity month said, ‘While adoption rate for a password manager is still low. There is a certain level of requirement for better feature who already use a password manager. But, also make the transition process easy for the people new to them.’

3. Writing your password down can be safer

Yes, Google claims it! 36% of users prove the same. And upon that, 66% prefer using the same password over and over again for multiple platforms. Writing down the password can a tricky yet safe job. At one place you can keep all your password in one place. On the other hand, you can also invite the onlooker to search all your passwords in one place and access all your data in one go. Google says to become strict and not to fall flat when such a situation arises. It is better to use Google password manager than to sorry for the data breach.

How to keep more secured?

Director of Product Management at Google, Erica Miraglia claims that Google is working hard to keep all the data of your users safe. Bot for Android users and iOS users. In the days of Google assistance, everything will be managed by ‘Hey Google’. Then you can keep your passwords with Google assistance but then later you will also tell the chat machine to delete all the files from its memory.

The search engine giant is still working hard to bring more strongest and easy platform so that no user of Google can be into the clutches of cyber threats.

So, be safe while accessing data online or visit the Cybersecurity month with Google.