October has been designated as National Cyber Security Awareness Month to bring attention to the importance of protecting yourself, your family and your information online.

Holyoke Community College is hosting the event on October 16th, 2009 at the Leslie Phillips Forum. The purpose of this conference is to focus attention on cyber security. Awareness presentations are scheduled that will share cyber security information directly related to businesses, academic institutes, and individuals and emphasize the importance of cyber security and the adverse consequences of its failure. Today's highly networked systems environment requires nothing less than our nation's best effort to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. "Thinking security" should be a natural reflex for information technology users in the 21st century.