National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, 2025

Proclamation 10985 of October 17, 2025

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, 2025

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

This National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, my
Administration renews its commitment to strengthening
our Nation's cybersecurity to improve American lives,
defend American sovereignty, and uphold the rights of
every American citizen.

In recent years, advancements in cybersecurity have
presented new threats to our national defense and
personal privacy. Criminal organizations and our foes
overseas have continued to wage cyber campaigns
targeting American civilians and businesses. These
attacks have disrupted critical services across our
Nation and inflicted billions of dollars in damages.

For this reason, earlier this year, I signed an
Executive Order to strengthen our Nation's
cybersecurity by focusing on critical protections
against foreign cyber threats and improving secure
technology practices. Among other crucial measures,
this action orders the Federal Government to advance
secure software development, directs the adoption of
the latest encryption protocols, and refocuses
artificial intelligence cybersecurity efforts towards
identifying and managing vulnerabilities rather than
censoring the lawful speech of the American people.

In this effort, I am especially proud of the First
Lady, whose steadfast leadership has helped protect
America's children in the digital world. Earlier this
year, she championed the bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, a
landmark law that gives families and young people
stronger protections against the spread of non-
consensual intimate images and other forms of online
exploitation. Her dedication reminds us that
cybersecurity is not only about networks and
infrastructure, but also about safeguarding the
dignity, privacy, and well-being of every American
child.

We are also putting the interests of American citizens
and American companies first in cyberspace, ensuring
that our inheritance of freedom prevails and endures in
the digital age. We are fueling American innovation by
eliminating unnecessary regulatory burdens and securing
greater investments in our technology sector. My
Administration will do whatever it takes to make
America cyber secure.

This month, especially, the First Lady and I encourage
every American to take steps to safeguard their
personal devices, technology, and data--including by
using stronger passwords and multifactor
authentication, reporting fraudulent emails, backing up
critical data, and regularly updating software. We also
renew our pledge to unleash the full might of American
ingenuity to respond to every threat to our privacy,
freedom, and national security--and we vow to never
waver in defending the lives, liberty, and safety of
the American people.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim October 2025 as
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. I call upon the
people, companies,

and institutions of the United States to recognize the
importance of cybersecurity and to observe this month
through events, training, and education to further our
country's national security and resilience.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.