What is resilience? It's like the old Timex ads, to "take a licking and keep on ticking."

As we sit here looking at 2024, it's not pretty what's coming our way:

* Our own SEC sued a CISO. (Didn't see that one coming.)

* We're facing burnout of our best and brightest in the cybersecurity sector.

* The attacks are intense. Infrastructure, schools, hospitals.

* Cybercrime? So lucrative.

It's coming at us on every conceivable front.

What does it look like to have a defensible posture against all of this, and survive 2024?

We believe its two things:

1. Personal resilience through connection to each other.

Connection opens the door to resilience for your health, your ability to show up again the next day, ready to fight the fight, run your business, do the work.

The latest research on mental health and loneliness shows what a powerful buffer connection is to keep us going.

And as we connect, let's share what we know -

Do you have an incident response plan? Can yours inform your peer's cybersecurity?

2. We need community resilience.

We want to know that our communities are aware of digital threats - scams, hacks, and know how to protect their digital health. Let's make sure we're sharing what we know with the people and organizations who have no clue the dangers that await them.

That's why we at SecureTheVillage exist - we care deeply about the community, and we believe you do too.

We're in this together. Support our mission this year to bring awareness to communities and gather cyber experts to inform the field.

Signing off for 2023 - See you in 2024!

- Stan Stahl, PhD and Julie Michelle Morris

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