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There are many things businesses, schools, and home users can do to practice cybersecurity during National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and beyond.

Here are a few steps that you can take to not only participate in National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but also enhance cybersecurity 365 days a year.

• Make sure that you have anti-virus software and firewalls installed, properly configured, and up-to-date. New threats are discovered every day, and keeping your software updated

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It's National Preparedness Month (read the proclamation here), and I'd like to highlight ways you can be prepared for emergencies of all types.

Here's a link to ready.gov to help you get started on your own plan for emergency preparedness.

What is Ready.gov? Here's part of their description from their web site:

Launched in February 2003, Ready is a national public service

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Today at EMPact America, we had a fire drill. A common enough thing for kids in school, but not something adults have to go through very often. Every adult knows what to do when they hear an alarm or see the strobe light flashing.

But do we know what to do?

As the mass of people exited our building and the building next to ours (this was a coordinated drill for the entire campus), we all kind of wandered slowly over to a gathering point that had been designated ...

Thanks for visiting our site. My name is Thomas Woods, and as the new Director of Multimedia Technology and webmaster for EMPact America, it is my privilege to work with very talented and patriotic people.

I joined EMPact America last month, and I've been excited to work on the web site and help get the message out about this important issue. I'm certainly no expert in EMP, but I'm learning so much just by reading and editing web pages and talking to other members of the staff and ...