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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cyberattacks have evolved, and new fraud tactics emerged, but the core principles of cyber hygiene are unchanged. Take Cybersecurity Awareness Month as an opportunity to sharpen your eye for cyber scams, and hone your cyber defenses. With apologies to the great English Bard of Canterbury (Orlando Bloom — Shakespeare hailed from Stratford-upon-Avon), “have good [cybersecurity] awareness, and [be] pretty comfortable with a sword.”

Bass Berry & Sims’ series, Privacy Perils, suggests steps you can take to guard your personal and company data.

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