Cyber Month Essentials: Passwords & Device Security

Cybersecurity Awareness Month sees countless amassing threats shouted from the hilltops by security advocates. Our advice treads off our usual path along the application risk surface and into the personal domain. Two increasingly hot threat vectors are password vulnerabilities and mobile devices—but you wouldn't notice as a regular daily user (until it were too late). De-normalizing lax attitudes toward device/password protection and embracing better personal standards for security are the best ways to keep your data out of the hands of ill-doers.