Yes, just like last October, this month we celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. So let’s look at what happened in the past year since we last honored this manufactured “holiday.”

We started off 2018 with more than three million records breached by Jason’s Deli, moved into spring with five million records from Saks/Lord&Taylor and 37 million care of Panera Bread restaurants. May saw breaches from fitness tracking company PumpUp and clothing retailer UnderArmor. July was a new low point with breaches from Ticketfly, the Sacramento Bee newspaper chain, and MyHeritage. And let’s not forget Exactis with 340 million records placed online.

And there are many, many other companies who have been breached that I haven’t even mentioned. The issue is that with security awareness, you are only as good as yesterday’s response. In this post for RSA’s blog, I have several suggestions on ways to make this month more meaningful and actionable for IT managers.