October 30, 2025
VINCENNES, Ind. – It’s spooky season, and while haunted houses and jump scares end on Halloween, the scariest threats (cyber ones) linger all year long. October marks National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Vincennes University is reminding everyone that in the digital world, the ghosts don’t disappear when the month is over.
“Cybersecurity can’t feel like a mandate, it has to feel like mission support,” said
Levi Ramsey, VU’s Director of IT Security. “When security is siloed in IT, we’re constantly
playing catch-up. The real gains happen when every department, from enrollment to
research owns its part in the risk picture.”
Ramsey says too many organizations fall into a classic horror plot: knowing the danger is out there, but waiting until it’s too late to act. At Vincennes University, that narrative is different. Through creative initiatives like phishing “expeditions” with prizes for spotting suspicious emails, capture-the-flag competitions, and cross-campus risk mapping, VU is building what Ramsey calls “resilience by design.” It’s a cultural shift that treats cybersecurity as everyone’s job from students to staff. Each staff member has a personalized dashboard so they can see how well they’re doing.
