Stellar Cyber Secures National ‘Don’t Click It’ Day

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San Jose, CA – October 1, 2024 — Stellar Cyber, the world’s most open AI-driven safety operations platform powered by Open XDR technology, introduced that it secured Nationwide “Don’t Click It” Day on October 16, 2024, coinciding with Nationwide Cybersecurity Consciousness Month. This initiative goals to coach and lift consciousness for individuals of all ages on the risks of hackers and cyber threats. “Don’t Click It, Pitch It,” this system that has impressed their Nationwide Day, helps to show individuals what to do after they obtain a suspicious electronic mail or textual content message and the way to make sure that their delicate info is just not compromised in a rip-off.
“Ultimately, it isn’t about how a lot expertise we will throw at cybercrime; a really large a part of the difficulty is altering human habits, and we wish to begin with our youth,” stated Steve Garrison, Senior Vice President of Advertising at Stellar Cyber and Founding father of Don’t Click on It, Pitch It. “Most cyber assaults occur as a result of somebody someplace opened an electronic mail or clicked on a hyperlink they need to not have.  Don’t Click on It hones in on this behavior and teaches kids of all ages that in the event that they have no idea the place one thing is from, throw it away. Curiosity killed the cat, however on this case, we hope to place a halt to curiosity and cease cybercrime from occurring.”

Tens of millions of phishing emails and faux alerts are despatched out day by day by hackers and criminals making an attempt to realize entry to financial institution accounts, monetary information, and all different varieties of information. These strategies may be extraordinarily convincing to children and younger adults who haven’t been educated on the inherent dangers of cyber assaults. Stellar Cyber has partnered with Minor League Baseball organizations, together with the Ogden Raptors (Ogden, UT), the Oakland Ballers (Oakland, CA), and the Lake County Corn Canines (Crown Level, IN), to assist educate children and teenagers about how one can keep protected on-line.  

By “Don’t Click on It, Pitch It,” Stellar Cyber has additionally introduced its curriculum to 1000’s of  college students in Massachusetts and California, equipping these younger individuals with the data wanted to establish and reply to phishing emails that include unhealthy hyperlinks and attachments.  If we will change human habits, we will help finish cybercrime.

Stellar Cyber encourages individuals to rejoice Nationwide “Don’t Click on It” Day by posting examples of rip-off texts and emails that they’ve acquired to assist unfold consciousness of the varied strategies that hackers and criminals make use of to try to entry our information and infiltrate our lives. The extra we expose the frequent techniques that these hackers use and educate the general public on the methods to establish a possible risk, the safer our on-line neighborhood might be and the safer our delicate info will turn out to be. 

What are our companions saying about Don’t Click on It:

Judy Safety CEO Raffaele Mautone stated, “After we heard concerning the “Don’t Click on it, Pitch It” marketing campaign, we have been all in.  Stellar Cyber is doing an excellent factor to assist educate our youngsters about being cautious to not click on on one thing from somebody they have no idea.”
Blackswan Cybersecurity’s CEO Mike Saylor, Ph.D. stated, ”Stellar Cyber understands the necessity to educate individuals of any age about being protected on-line, however beginning with our youngsters is good.  Blackswan stands behind “Don’t Click on It” and is thrilled to see the nonprofit have a nationwide day to carry even  extra consciousness to the trigger.”

CyFlare CEO Joe Morin stated, “Enterprise electronic mail compromise and phishing are the second largest assault vectors crippling organizations and dramatically impacting people, but 100% of those assaults may be prevented if customers are educated to not click on. Instructing kids cybersecurity consciousness takes solely a small period of time however creates a long-lasting, impactful protection for the long run.”

About Stellar Cyber

Stellar Cyber’s Automation-driven Safety Operations Platform, together with NG-SIEM and NDR and powered by Open XDR, delivers complete, unified cybersecurity with out complexity. It empowers lean safety groups of any ability degree to efficiently safe their environments. As a part of this unified platform, Stellar Cyber’s Multi-Layer AI™ allows enterprises, MSSPs, and MSPs to scale back threat with early and exact risk identification and remediation whereas slashing prices, retaining investments in current instruments, and enhancing analyst productiveness. This ends in a 20X enchancment in MTTD and an 8X enchancment in MTTR. The corporate relies in Silicon Valley. For extra info, go to https://stellarcyber.ai

About Don’t Click on It, Pitch It!

Don’t Click on It, Pitch It! goals to coach younger adults and teenagers on cybersecurity, specializing in figuring out and stopping cyberattacks like phishing and identification theft. By 2030, it seeks to show over 5 million younger individuals how one can defend their private info. The group emphasizes security, privateness, and confidence in digital interactions by instructional applications and actions run by volunteers, with proceeds supporting its mission. For extra info, go to Don’t Click It, Pitch It