One Order of Tips, Tricks & Hot Takes for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 | Huntress

**Cybersecurity Awareness Month briefing:** This blog post highlights a renewed ransomware threat (including BYOVD tactics following the Qakbot disruption), theDanger posed by unpatched or MFA-free SSL VPNs, increasing macOS-targeted malware and infostealers, and promotes basic but effective defenses—keep systems patched, enable MFA (especially on VPNs), monitor logs with SIEM, deploy macOS-capable EDR, use password managers, and maintain security awareness training—to reduce risk year-round.