Facebook Uses ‘Trick or Treat’ to Test Employees’ Cybersecurity Savvy

Facebook Uses ‘Trick or Treat’ to Test Employees’ Cybersecurity Savvy
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Holly Kellum
Holly Kellum
Washington Correspondent
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October is National Cyber Security Awareness month, a time that the management at Facebook takes very seriously, but implements it in a very not-so-serious way.

For more than seven years, the month has been known at Facebook as “Hacktober,” a time when the cybersecurity team plays a month-long game of “trick or treat” with employees to see how prepared they are to defend themselves against cyber attacks.
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Holly Kellum
Holly Kellum
Washington Correspondent
Holly Kellum is a Washington correspondent for NTD. She has worked for NTD on and off since 2012.
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