National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, 2025

This document is a presidential proclamation designating October 2025 as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It announces the Administration’s ongoing commitment to strengthening the nation’s cybersecurity to protect Americans’ safety, privacy, and national sovereignty. The proclamation emphasizes public observance through events, training, and education, and frames cybersecurity as a shared responsibility among individuals, companies, and institutions. The proclamation also ties the observance to prior executive actions and policy priorities. It references an executive order aimed at fortifying cybersecurity—encompassing secure software development, adoption of up-to-date encryption protocols, and a shift in AI cybersecurity toward identifying and managing vulnerabilities. It highlights the First Lady’s advocacy and the TAKE IT DOWN Act as part of broader online safety efforts, notes a focus on reducing regulatory barriers to spur American innovation and secure investment in the technology sector, and urges Americans to take practical steps to protect their devices and data (strong passwords, multifactor authentication, reporting phishing, backing up data, and updating software). Note: This is a proclamation, not a new law. It sets forth priorities and encouragement for observance and awareness, rather than imposing new legal requirements.