Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Cyber threats continually evolve and pose risks to our customers and business partners, our communities and our company. Travelers takes a holistic approach to cybersecurity, which includes a comprehensive awareness initiative, to foster safe cyber behaviors. 

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a collaborative industry- and government-led effort to continue raising awareness around the importance of cybersecurity. Each year, Travelers initiates a campaign to highlight critical cyber-related risks, as well as actions employees can take to safeguard Travelers’ and our customers’ information.

In 2024, our “Be CyberWise – Work. Home. Everywhere.” campaign centered on educating, empowering and enabling employees through multiple learning and engagement mediums. Highlights included physical and digital signage, an action-focused training course to help mitigate cyber risk and reduce potential impact from an incident, a capture-the-flag competition that tested technical cyber savviness, a series of humorous video shorts accompanied by industry best-practice cyber safety tips and a “Cyber Heroes” series to celebrate employee vigilance to thwart cybercrime. Together, these efforts made for a comprehensive employee awareness campaign to help keep our customers, our partners and each other cyber secure. 

In 2024, the Travelers Institute, the public policy division of Travelers, marked Cybersecurity Awareness Month with three cybersecurity symposia – in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Irvine, California; and the Washington, D.C., metro area – as part of its Cyber: Prepare, Prevent, Mitigate, Restore^® series. These in-person programs convened business and public sector leaders alongside independent insurance agents and brokers, who all received tools and practical, actionable advice to bolster their cyber hygiene. The audience heard from Travelers cybersecurity experts and a range of government speakers, including experts from the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

The Travelers Institute also hosted a webinar, part of the Wednesdays with Woodward^® series, that provided an update on the cyber threat landscape and five critical steps to help enhance cyber hygiene, including using multifactor authentication, having an incident response plan and investing in backups. The webinar featured the former Chief Information Officer from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), representatives from CISA, and members of Travelers’ leadership team.

Related resources

• Travelers Institute^® Digital Resource: Cybersecurity Readiness Hub
• Travelers Institute^® Webinar: Get Cyber Ready: Best Practices for Navigating Today’s Biggest Threats
• Travelers Institute^® Press Release: Travelers Institute Announces Fall Schedule for Cybersecurity Symposia