Business Essentials: Protecting Your Business Against Cyber Attacks
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Cyber attacks against small businesses have more than tripled since 2011. Unfortunately, many best practices focus on large enterprises or government organizations. Even worse is the climate of paranoia that generates unrealistic advice that no one could follow. Faced with this kind of complexity, small business owners may assume that real cybersecurity is out of their reach, so they give up and hope for the best. The good news is that cybersecurity doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.
Join us to learn specific, mission-critical improvements that you can implement for your small business right away. Learn from an ethical hacker how hackers think and what techniques they use to hack you and your data.
Concepts discussed include:
Meet Our Speakers
Cyber attacks against small businesses have more than tripled since 2011. Unfortunately, many best practices focus on large enterprises or government organizations. Even worse is the climate of paranoia that generates unrealistic advice that no one could follow. Faced with this kind of complexity, small business owners may assume that real cybersecurity is out of their reach, so they give up and hope for the best. The good news is that cybersecurity doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.
Join us to learn specific, mission-critical improvements that you can implement for your small business right away. Learn from an ethical hacker how hackers think and what techniques they use to hack you and your data.
Concepts discussed include:
- Social Engineering
- Public Wi-Fi and hotspots
- Password hacking
- IoT devices
Meet Our Speakers
Natalie Unga
Chief Operating Office & Managing Partner
WECybr
Natalie Unga is Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner with WECybr, a woman-owned cybersecurity firm operating in the Rocky Mountains. WECybr’s mission is to help small and mid-sized businesses navigate sophisticated technology and embrace simpler, more effective responses to their cybersecurity challenges. Natalie manages strategic growth, strategic partnerships with security experts, outreach, and client experience. She also ensures WECybr clients receive top quality experience in project organization, budgets, troubleshooting security lapses, and quality custom solutions.
Natalie has worked with companies such as: Easterseals, Beta Health Company, Northern California Power Agency, EDD, InShape, Medtronic and NuSkin. She directly coordinated with senior leadership teams to ensure smooth client implementation.
Natalie spent over a decade as an IT Project Manager developing, training and authoring custom on-site IT solutions, primarily focused on Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint and data security. Prior to that, she was a paralegal for over 6 years. Natalie has an Associate Degree in Legal Studies and a BA in International Cultural Studies & Communications from Brigham Young University Hawaii.
Sharee English
Chief Security Office & Managing Partner
WECybr
Sharee English is Chief Security Officer & Managing Partner with WECybr, a woman-owned cybersecurity firm operating in the Rocky Mountians. WECybr’s mission is to help small and mid-sized businesses navigate sophisticated technology and embrace simpler, more effective responses to their cybersecurity challenges. Sharee brings almost 30 years of deep technology experience, having spent most of her career in major cities as the top technology or IT security executive. She was the CIO at fortune 1000 company and has built technology and training solutions her entire career.
Sharee brings her deep expertise and passion for learning to a highly underserved space - small and mid-size businesses. She deeply empathizes with small business owners, having owned, operated, and sold many of her own businesses (both technology and lifestyle). Sharee has educated and mentored hundreds of people to build their knowledge about information security. She loves the immediate impact small business owners can experience with simple and inexpensive ways to protect their assets. She brings both humor and a down-to-earth approach to her workshops and training so that learning is fun and engaging.
With a Masters degree in Cybersecurity, Ms. English has worked in computer programming and security for most of her career building intranets, creating secure employee portals, and conducting on-site IT training. She is now a top 5% ranked Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) as well as a certified Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). Her career has taken her to some fascinating spaces, like working with the FBI and being a crime scene investigator.
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Date and Time
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MDT
Location
Virtual
Training is available statewide
Fees/Admission
$25
Use promocode HELP2020 to register for free
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Teresa Bagdasarova
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