UW and Wyoming SBDC Network to Host Comprehensive Cybersecurity Review Webinar Aug. 20

Small-business owners, entrepreneurs and startups will have an opportunity to assess the comprehensive knowledge they have gained to make their entities more cyber ready Thursday, Aug. 20.

Paul Johnson, Marree Reed and Ian Moon will lead a Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network webinar titled "Comprehensive Cybersecurity Review: Materials and Resources to Make Your Business More Cyber Ready" from noon-12:30 p.m. To register, go here. The event is hosted by the Wyoming SBDC Network's Cybersecurity for Small businesses Program.

The Wyoming SBDC Network offers business expertise to help Wyoming residents think about, launch, grow, reinvent or exit their business. The Wyoming SBDC Network is hosted by the University of Wyoming with state funds from the Wyoming Business Council and funded, in part, through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

The webinar will review the many training topics covered in monthly webinars during the past three years. Speakers also will share handouts, self-assessments and other materials to help businesses prepare to be less of a target to hackers and scammers and make them more resilient in the event of a cyberattack.

Johnson is manager of the Wyoming SBDC Network's Cybersecurity Program.

Reed is a cybersecurity program assistant in UW's Cybersecurity Education and Research Center and a part-time employee with Institutional Marketing.

Moon is a cybersecurity program assistant with the Wyoming SBDC Network's Cybersecurity Program and a graduate of UW's Computer Science Program.

For more information, call Tyler Schanck, marketing, communications and database manager for the Wyoming SBDC Network, at (307) 343-0925 or email [email protected].