Lawmaker proclaims October 2025 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, urges four simple steps to ‘Stay Safe Online’

A Genesee County lawmaker read a proclamation declaring October 2025 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, adopting the 2025 theme “Stay Safe Online” and urging residents to treat cybersecurity as a shared responsibility. The proclamation was read aloud and followed by applause.

The lawmaker said the month offers “a valuable opportunity to educate the public about cyber risks and to empower both employees and community members to adopt safer online behavior.” The reading put particular emphasis on four straightforward actions the campaign calls “the four.”

Those four recommended actions, read in full by the speaker, were: “Create strong passwords and use [a] password manager,” “Enable multifactor authentication,” “Recognize and report scams,” and “Keep your software updated.” The speaker framed these steps as accessible measures that “regardless of technical skills” anyone can use to help make the internet safer.

The proclamation framed these behaviors as benefiting not only individuals but the broader community: “Good cyber behavior not only protects you as an individual, but you are also helping to keep Genesee County, your business, those you do business with, your friends, your loved ones safe,” the lawmaker said. The reading closed by thanking the Genesee County Legislature and encouraging residents to use October to build habits they can maintain year-round.

No vote tally or formal motion record appears in the transcript; the text of the proclamation was read aloud and received applause.