Be a Yale Cyber Hero - Make 2024 the year you build cyber-safe habits and stick to them!
The 21-Day Cyber Habit Challenge puts you in the driver's seat – you’ll build good cyber habits to boost online safety in a simple and engaging way. Armed with information and know-how, you’ll feel more confident online.
Ready to join us in creating cyber habits that stick?
Sign up at any time during February and simply pick up the challenge during the current week.
Week 5 (February 26 - February 29)
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Date |
Description |
Task |
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| Monday, February 26 | Our devices and applications develop vulnerabilities over time. These vulnerabilities are flaws or weaknesses that become wide-open doors for hackers. Unpatched vulnerabilities can lead to cybersecurity incidents or data breaches. |
Enroll in auto-updates on your personal computer. |
| Tuesday, February 27 | Most of us use our computers, smartphones, and tablets every day. Different aspects of these devices need to stay up to date. These include:
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Enroll in auto-updates on your personal phone or tablet. |
| Wednesday, February 28 | Motivated to help your team or department “bee cyber fit?” If you attended one of the Five Simple Topics on Cybersecurity sessions during the Challenge you know how engaging they are – a fun, interactive learning experience. Our team would love to come to your virtual team meeting. Together, we can help our teams protect Yale's data and systems. | Request a Kahoot trivia game for your department. |
| Thursday, February 29 | You did it! 21 days of cyber tasks and challenges to build your cyber muscles. Has the challenge made you more aware of cybersecurity? Are there things you plan to keep doing? Weigh in on your experience in our brief survey. |
Complete our 21-Day Cyber Habit Challenge participation survey. |
| Don’t forget to submit this week’s completion checklist to track your progress and be eligible for an exclusive prize pack! | ||
How the Challenge Works
Each day we’ll ask you to complete a simple task. Most can be done in 10 minutes or less like solving a cyber-themed Wordle, taking a phishing quiz to build awareness or completing a brief survey.
You’ll receive two messages per week to keep the Challenge top of mind.
Each Monday you’ll receive an email about the week’s daily tasks. Each Thursday you’ll receive a reminder.
You’ll be asked to complete a brief weekly survey about your progress.
Don’t forget to submit your surveys as you can be entered to win cybersecurity awareness swag.
At the end of February, we’ll select winners based on weekly checklist completion. Complete all tasks and you can be entered to win one of our newest Yeti bottles – you’ll solidify your status as a Yale Cyber Hero!
Forming Habits
Wondering what habits have to do with cybersecurity awareness?
When you build safe cyber habits you protect Yale and protect your personal information. The more you practice, the easier it is to do!
Here are three secrets to help form habits that stick:
- Behaviors become more natural when we do them repeatedly.
- We can form habits more easily when the tasks are simple to complete.
- Actions that give you a feeling of immediate success encourage you to do more.