Your Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign is here. Free. Ready for kick-off.
October Awareness Month is the World Cup of cybersecurity. Executing such an important campaign alone is stressful. Imagine if an award-winning marketing team removed that stress and made you the industry's best Cyber Awareness Campaign. The CAM 2026 Toolkit turns that dream into reality.
What's in the toolkit?
This year's theme is: "Cybersecurity is a team sport." You'll get four weeks of culture-building content that expands employees' knowledge and develops their cyber skills. These beautifully designed messaging templates, videos, posters, and interactive tools motivate people to improve their cyber performance.
For themselves, and for the whole team.
Week 1
Warm Up
Stretch Your Security Muscles: Cyber criminals have redrawn the field of play with AI. Limber up for this epic face-off against today's threat landscape with defensive and offensive cyber skills, instincts, and strategy.
Week 2
Agility Training
Train Your Security Reflexes: Attacks are coming from all directions: email, Teams, Slack, phone, social media. This week, train employees to recognize multi-channel threats and respond before something regrettable happens.
Week 3
Strength Training
Lift the Heavy Weights: AI-generated phishing. MFA bypass. Deepfake voice & video calls. This week trains our cyber muscles to withstand the most sophisticated attacks reaching employees in 2026.
Week 4
Game Day
Make the Right Play: It's game-time, friends. How will your team handle the pressure? Find out with five real-world scenarios that test your skills & knowledge. Can you make the right call when it counts? The final week brings it all together.
This campaign-in-a-box is made for security leaders, and meant for everyone.
Want the best awareness month ever? You don't need a big budget. Or a Hoxhunt subscription. Or a big comms team. You just need the tools and content to generate measurable results and good vibes. We're here to get you there.
The CAM toolkit was designed to reduce the hassle and stress of October awareness month while maximizing results. It's the product of years of insight into award-winning campaigns from companies like Docusign and Qualcomm. And it's our pleasure to give it to you, free of charge.
Infographic
A visual summary of each week's theme. Designed for info screens, screensavers, and printed posters. Available in vertical and horizontal formats.
Communications template
A pre-written employee message, ready to send via email, Slack, Teams, or your intranet. Customize with your company name and go.
Video
A 60–90 second educational video for each week. Share in your weekly message, embed on your intranet, or play at a team meeting.
Weekly challenge
An interactive exercise that puts the week's theme into practice. Some are ready-made games hosted by Hoxhunt. Others are awareness manger-led challenges your team runs together. No Hoxhunt account is required for any of them.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month Toolkit FAQ
Cybersecurity Awareness Month, held each October, is a global initiative led by CISA and the National Cybersecurity Alliance to promote safer online practices. For enterprises, it’s a powerful moment to engage employees, elevate risk awareness, and reinforce security behaviors that defend against today’s evolving threats - including phishing, deepfakes, and AI-powered social engineering.Cybersecurity Awareness Month, held each October, is a global initiative led by CISA and the National Cybersecurity Alliance to promote safer online practices. For enterprises, it’s a powerful moment to engage employees, elevate risk awareness, and reinforce security behaviors that defend against today’s evolving threats - including phishing, deepfakes, and AI-powered social engineering.Cybersecurity Awareness Month was first launched in October 2004 as a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). The goal was to educate both the public and private sectors about cybersecurity and to make sure they have the tools and resources avoid cyber threats.
Unlike static toolkits, Hoxhunt delivers dynamic, weekly microlearning experiences focused on today's most pressing human risk topics. Here's what sets Hoxhunt apart:
- Video-first learning: 4 short, expert-led videos covering topics like deepfake phishing, generative AI attacks, and Slack-based social engineering
- Real-world relevance: Stories and examples employees can recognize and relate to
- Plug-and-play comms: Prewritten messages for email, Slack, Teams, and intranet — saving security teams hours
- Visual assets: Custom-designed infographics usable as posters, screensavers, or digital shares
Inside, you’ll find:
Video
A short educational video for each week of the campaign. Drop it in your launch message, embed it on your intranet, or play it at a team meeting to open the conversation.
Weekly challenge
A ready-made interactive game for each week — hosted by Hoxhunt, playable in any browser, no account needed. Each one puts the week's theme to the test: from spotting phishing emails to detecting AI-generated deepfakes. Share the link and let the competition do the rest.
Infographic
A visual summary of each week's theme. Designed for info screens, screensavers, and printed posters. Available in vertical and horizontal formats.
Communications template
A pre-written message for each week, ready to send via email, Slack, or Teams. Customise with your company name and link to that week's challenge — everything else is done.
Use the ready-made communication templates to spread awareness across your organization with ease. Each template highlights a key modern security topic and can be shared via email, Slack, or your intranet. Personalize the message, add your own examples, or send it as-is, whatever best fits your company’s tone and culture.
- We provide everything you need for a seamless rollout: Start-of-month campaign email for leadership or HR
- Weekly drop kits: video + infographic + comms
- The whole experience takes ~15 minutes per week to deploy but feels engaging and impactful to employees.
Ready when you are. Your free toolkit is waiting.
Get instant access to the complete Hoxhunt 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Toolkit - packed with expert video lessons, eye-catching infographics, and ready-to-use awareness messages. Everything is designed to help you run a professional, engaging campaign without the extra workload. Download it today and start building a culture of security that lasts long after October.
