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The Royal Armoury

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The court is observing it enthusiastically and incorrectly. Free posters, memes and ideas for whoever has been handed October.

I cannot stand behind every subject as they read their letters. I have tried. It unsettles them, and there are rather a lot of you. Take a poster instead.

Here the crown issues free cybersecurity awareness posters: wanted notices, royal decrees and proclamations, suitable for the noticeboard, the break room, the classroom wall, the newsletter and the security awareness programme. The armoury does not sell arms. It issues them.

Print them, pin them, send them. Each poster is a joke that happens to be true; the court has checked the true part twice.

Planning a campaign? The Royal Calendar of Observances lists every date in the year worth building one for. These are built to be used rather than admired: cybersecurity training posters for a security awareness campaign, a staff induction, a school corridor or the slide nobody wanted to sit through. Every one comes in colour and in a black and white issue, at A4 and US Letter, with a presentation deck that has real speaker notes in it.

Free phishing awareness poster

Free phishing awareness poster: a medieval WANTED notice charging the phishing email with urgency, false links and demanding passwords and gift cards, illustrated with a hooded envelope rogue holding a fishing rod
The accused, at large in every inbox in the realm. The court tried it, convicted it, and now asks the public's help in never clicking it again. Take the poster.

Free password security poster

Free password security poster: a medieval record of verdicts upon six passwords, ruled on by a black horse in a gold bridle and keyhole medallion at a paddock fence
Six passwords went to the paddock. Two came back with a neigh. The horse gave no reasons then and has given none since. Take the poster.

Free MFA poster

Free MFA poster: a royal decree upon two-factor authentication, showing a hooded thief bowed against a shut castle door with a stolen password scroll in his hand
He has a working password and he is still outside, which is the entire argument for the second factor put into one picture. Take the poster.

A free cybersecurity audit for small businesses

Sixteen questions about what the business has and who can reach it, answered in ten minutes in the browser, which hand back the things worth doing first in the order they are worth doing.

Start the free audit

Take the whole armoury at once

The court has bound the lot into a single presentation for whoever has been handed October and does not propose to assemble it themselves. Three posters, eleven memes, and speaker notes on every slide, written to be read aloud by somebody who would rather not be standing up.

The PDF is the one to send round. The PowerPoint is the one to stand up with, being the only one of the three that carries the notes. The short version is square, for posting somewhere that shows a document a page at a time and shrinks anything wider than it is tall. It leads with the memes, the posters being too tall to read at that size, and says where the posters are instead.

Issue PDF Image Slides
Everything, 18 slides PDF 2.9 MB — PPTX 23.4 MB
The short version, square, 6 pages PDF 692 KB — —

The terms of issue

Free to use unaltered: at work, in a classroom, in a newsletter, on any noticeboard that will have them. Not for resale. The credit is already printed on the thing, so there is nothing for you to add.

That is the whole treaty. The crown's lawyers are disappointed by its brevity and have been informed that the matter is closed.

Requests, questions and corrections reach the court at [email protected].

More arms are being forged. The smiths have finished arguing about the second factor and have moved on to the backups.

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