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At this time of year, I must admit that I really miss Halloween. I will be spending next Tuesday evening teaching a law school course rather than trick-or-treating. When my kids were young and in prime trick-or-treating mode, I went all in for Halloween, decorating my house with increasingly elaborate Halloween-themed displays and getting decked out in some funny costumes. And that was before one had access to the 12-foot Giant-Sized Home Depot Skeleton which is all the rage today.

Unfortunately for me, the kids grew up and trick-or-treating was no longer cool for them. I compounded the problem by moving to an old house that creepily sits at the top of a hill, at the end of a long driveway and in the middle of a dark forest, and no trick-or-treater has ever dared to make the trek to my front door. We have become so confident that we will have no Halloween visitors that we stopped buying candy “just in case.” My Halloween decorations have scaled down to some mums and two pumpkins. The only costume I will be wearing on Tuesday is “adjunct professor.”

So, I have had to begrudgingly replace the creative outlet that I found in Halloween with some other October activity, and of course it had to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month. As I noted last year, October has been Cybersecurity Awareness Month since 2004, and it just gets better every year as cybersecurity threats continue to proliferate.

In recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, I was fortunate to recently be joined by my new colleague Linda Clark on MoFo’s Above Board podcast, and she addresses the important roles that GCs and directors play in protecting and maintaining their companies’ cybersecurity and mitigating the damage caused by cybersecurity incidents.

If you are looking for more Cybersecurity Awareness Month content, be sure to check out MoFo’s Cyber Security Resource Center.

– Dave Lynn