Published February 01, 2024
By Institutional Communications
Many small-business owners hear it all the time: Use strong passwords, change them often, and don’t use them more than once. Small-business owners will have the opportunity to put that advice into practice Thursday, Feb. 8.
Paul Johnson and Jim Drever will lead a Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network webinar titled “Passwords 101” from noon-12:30 p.m. To register, go here. Registration is free.
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.
This webinar will provide small-business owners best practices for using and creating passwords, which are the front door for hackers to disrupt their business operations, data and customer records. Lessons learned from this webinar will help small-business owners keep that front door locked.
Johnson is the cybersecurity program manager for the Wyoming SBDC Network.
Drever is the Wyoming SBDC Network regional director for Albany and Carbon counties. Previously, he was a marketing director and project manager at a software company, had a small consulting business and recently co-founded CyberWyoming with the Made Safe in Wyoming program.
Drever has been a source for cybersecurity for small businesses in The Wall Street Journal and has presented on the topic at national conferences. Beyond general business assistance, Drever specializes in e-marketing, e-commerce and risk management, especially cybersecurity. He is a certified ethical hacker and has a chief information security officer specialist certification with a background in vulnerability assessment, ethical hacking and cybersecurity risk assessment and management. He assists and advises clients about cybersecurity statewide.
For more information, call Maureen Johnson, marketing, communication and database manager for the Wyoming SBDC Network, at (307) 343-0925 or email mjohn125@uwyo.edu.
