October, being declared as the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month began in 2004 through a partnership between the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA).
In recognition of this, Information Technology Skills for Africa organized a virtual awareness training on the 1st of October, 2021as a strategy to share information, increase knowledge about cyber security.