Cybersecurity hygiene is a set of continuous practices that organizations can implement to keep sensitive data and assets secure from unauthorized individuals and malicious actors, similar to personal hygiene. The threat of cyber attacks has increased, with 3 million more incidents in 2022, making regular cybersecurity hygiene essential to reduce the likelihood of being a victim. Common security gaps include lost or misplaced data, application performance issues, outdated software, poor controls around data access and sharing, and incomplete incident response protocols. Good cybersecurity hygiene provides vulnerability detection and remediation, strengthens security posture, lowers costs, increases productivity, and provides additional time to focus on higher priorities. However, the costs of poor cybersecurity hygiene are high, including government fines, operational downtime, and legal liability. To assess cybersecurity hygiene, organizations should review their methods and practices regularly, consider a cyber resilience assessment, and apply best practices such as identity and access management, encryption, and regular backups. The challenges of implementing good cybersecurity hygiene include monotony, user buy-in, lack of visibility, and cost of implementation and ROI. Various tools can help with cybersecurity hygiene, including IAM tools, EDR solutions, antivirus software, code scanners, and asset management software. Cyber hygiene is also important for developers, as it secures application code and cloud misconfigurations, and resources like Snyk's dev-first tooling provide integrated and automated security that meets governance and compliance needs.