Throughout October, a number of our customers stepped up to the plate and took part in a month-long campaign within the Aftra attack surface management platform. This initiative was designed to help them proactively improve their cybersecurity and reduce their risk of an attack through a series of actions.
Those customers who completed the campaign were awarded the Aftra badge of cybersecurity resilience for 2025, showcasing their commitment and dedication to being as secure as possible.
In addition, ten customers who already demonstrated cybersecurity excellence were presented with the recognition at the beginning of the month to acknowledge their dedication to security.
But let’s take a quick step back. What does cybersecurity resilience mean? It doesn’t mean never being hacked or an employee never falling victim to a phishing scam. These events are inevitable. It means that an organization focuses on limiting the likelihood and frequency of cyberattacks, minimizes their damage, and responds to incidents swiftly and professionally and with limited disruption.
Cybersecurity resilience is important because it protects your organization’s continuity, trust, and survival in a world where disruption is inevitable.
You can invest in prevention forever, but humans make mistakes, software has vulnerabilities, and attackers only need one gap. Resilience accepts this reality.
A single ransomware incident can halt operations, delay revenue, stop support functions, and require costly emergency work. Resilience keeps things running, or at least gets them running again fast, so disruption doesn’t mean disaster.
Customers, partners, and regulators don’t care that “a hacker was really smart.” They care that their data stays safe and the business remains reliable. Resilience preserves credibility and brand reputation when something goes wrong.
Industries such as finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure are legally required to keep going. Downtime can mean regulatory penalties, breached contracts, lawsuits, and fines.
Long story short, resilience transforms a cyberattack from a catastrophic event into a survivable, controlled incident and we’re happy that our campaign helped customers work towards that goal.
The Aftra badge is a recognition awarded to organizations that demonstrate a strong commitment to cybersecurity by effectively using Aftra's software. It signifies that a company has taken substantial steps to enhance its cybersecurity posture.
By earning this badge, organizations can showcase their dedication to protecting their sensitive data and maintaining robust security measures. The recognition can differentiate a company in the marketplace and build trust with clients and partners who prioritize cybersecurity.
The badge is awarded each October in conjunction with international cybersecurity awareness month.
Customers who signed up to the Aftra badge campaign were given early access to our new dashboard with an entirely new section for actions. Each week new actions showed up in the dashboard for users to complete.
In order to earn the badge at the end of the month, those customers needed to complete the actions each week. These actions were specifically designed to assess and improve an organization's cybersecurity resilience within a short amount of time. They included tasks like verifying your domains, resolving critical vulnerabilities, or running security awareness campaigns with their most at risk employees.
25 companies signed up to take part in the cybersecurity challenge this October and another 13 were awarded the Aftra badge of cybersecurity resilience for 2025 without needing to complete the tasks due already being proactive in using Aftra and quickly resolving the vulnerabilities we find.
But what’s even more exciting is how much our customers were engaged with the initiative and the tangible improvements made to their cybersecurity. Here are a few metrics from the campaign:
Congrats to all of the participants and recipients. We look forward to running this initiative again next year and to help increase cybersecurity resilience and awareness amongst our customer base.