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Proclamation 10985

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, 2025

This proclamation designates October 2025 as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It encourages Americans, companies, and institutions to recognize cybersecurity importance through events, training, and education, while referencing prior administration actions including an executive order on cybersecurity and the TAKE IT DOWN Act championed by the First Lady.

Federal Register Open PDF 90 FR 48477

Impact dates

  1. Start of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month observance period

Key directives

  • Proclaim October 2025 as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
  • Call upon people, companies, and institutions to observe through events, training, and education

Timeline

Immediate

  • Proclamation takes effect upon signing; October 2025 designated as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Near term (90d)

  • Encouraged observance through events, training, and education during October 2025

Long term

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Risks & tensions

  • References to 'earlier this year' executive order and TAKE IT DOWN Act are descriptive/historical, not operative directives in this proclamation
  • No binding mandates or resource allocations; purely hortatory and commemorative
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