Category: Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Hot Topics: Creating a Cyber Incidence Plan

Join us every Tuesday in the month of July for our Cybersecurity Livestreams on Facebook! 
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The Human Factor- The Importance of Cybersecurity Awareness Training

Join us every Tuesday in the month of July for our Cybersecurity Livestreams on Facebook! 
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Create a Cyber Incident Response Plan

In an era where cyber incidents are on the rise, ensuring you have a cyber incident response plan means you know how to respond to a serious security incident, such as a data breach, data leak, ransomware attack, or loss of sensitive information.

During this session, we walk you through the basics of creating a cyber incident response plan for your organization. By the end of this hour, you should feel equipped to put a basic incident response plan together.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Business Owners, Management Teams, Cybersecurity Professionals and individuals within an organization responsible for cybersecurity, risk management or information security

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How to protect your small business from Identity Theft

In this three-part series Virginia SBDC Cyber Industry Expert, Quiana Gainey, covers how to start protecting your business from cyber threats online. This third session in the series discusses what sort of data small businesses are responsible for and how they can secure their data.

Identity theft is a serious threat to small business owners. Thieves may steal sensitive information and business owners must be alert and on guard at all times. It is important to take strong security measures to protect your business and your customer data.

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It’s All About the Data

In this three-part series Virginia SBDC Cyber Industry Expert, Quiana Gainey, covers how to start protecting your business from cyber threats online. This second session in the series offers best practices for small businesses to protect their business data.

Cybersecurity threats and data breaches have become the rule rather than an exception for businesses regardless of size. Protecting business data starts with a solid understanding of best practices in cybersecurity.

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Let’s Talk about Cybersecurity for Startups

In this three-part series Virginia SBDC Cyber Industry Expert, Quiana Gainey, covers how to start protecting your business from cyber threats online. This first session in the series covers cybersecurity considerations for startups.

The Internet allows businesses of all sizes and from any location to reach new and larger markets and provides opportunities to work more efficiently by using computer-based tools. Theft of digital information has become the most commonly reported fraud, surpassing physical theft.                

Joined by special guest speaker William McBorrough of Posture.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How to Get your Business Involved

Since, 2004, Cybersecurity Awareness Month has been a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure that businesses have the resources they need to protect their critical information. Over 3000, companies, schools’ governments and non-profits joined the 2020 campaign as Champions.  Learn how you can be part of the 2021 campaign and receive free resources to help educate your employees, customers, clients, vendors and partners about cybersecurity awareness.

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Securing Your WordPress Website

Creating your website with WordPress can be exciting but also overwhelming. Once you have built your site, you need to secure it. Hackers like to take advantage of inexperienced users and new websites to get access to your sensitive information. Most security breaches can be prevented if your site is up to date.

Virginia SBDC Cybersecurity Advisor, Tom Stamulis, shares essential security practices and tips on how to keep your plugins up to date and your site secure.

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Session 9: Key Technologies & Cyber Security Needs

Session nine of the Refocus & Rebuild webinar series was held this afternoon and focused on cyber security/key technologies and applications businesses should consider. The session was presented by Jonathan Evenden with Aegis IT Solutions.

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