October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM), and VIPRE has done the heavy lifting for you. Their 2026 toolkit gives you four weeks of ready-to-send emails, videos, posters, and games, so you can run a full awareness campaign without building a single asset from scratch.
Get the toolkit: Fill out the short form on VIPRE's Cybersecurity Awareness Month page and the full kit is yours.
This year's theme: Bridging knowledge and protection
- Week 1 (Oct 5-9): Stop. Verify. Protect. Spot threats before they reach the inbox
- Week 2 (Oct 12-16): Pause before you send. Avoid costly mis-sent email mistakes
- Week 3 (Oct 19-23): Small habits, big protection. Build consistent security habits
- Week 4 (Oct 26-30): Secure every device. Protect devices when human defenses are bypassed
Every week includes email templates (welcome, weekly, and closing), short educational videos, a blog post, posters for the office or intranet, infographics, and browser-based games employees can play with no download required.
Spotlight on week 2: Pause before you send
Most security training focuses on what comes into the inbox. Week 2 focuses on what goes out. One autocomplete slip or a reflexive reply-all can put customer data, confidential files, or private comments in front of people who were never meant to see them.
Week 2 gives you:
- A ready-to-customize email that introduces the theme to employees
- A short video on what happens when an email lands with the wrong recipient
- The Small mistakes, big risks infographic, covering six habits: check recipients, think before you reply all, review attachments, protect sensitive info, pause and proofread, and use outbound email protection
- A quick challenge on spotting the clues that a photo is AI generated
Make it count in Docebo
- Add the week 2 video and infographic to a short course or channel, then pair it with VIPRE's Privacy Compliance training so employees learn to spot sensitive information before it ever leaves their outbox
- Use the email template as your announcement and point employees straight to that content
- Running PhishProof by VIPRE in Docebo? Schedule a phishing simulation the same week. Employees who interact with it are automatically enrolled in targeted training based on their PhishScore, so awareness and practice happen in one place
Bonus for home: The kit also includes family-friendly content, like kid-friendly posters, a crossword, and an AI photo spot-the-difference game, so the habits employees build at work carry over to home.
How are you running CAM this year? Share your plans in the comments; we'd love to see what other teams are doing.