UW and Wyoming SBDC Network to Host Cyber Readiness Webinar April 17

Small-business owners can learn how to become cyber ready so that their organizations can prevent financial losses and solidify their credibility in the eyes of their customers Thursday, April 17.

Paul Johnson, Marree Reed, Izabella Carbert, Ian Moon and Kaeden Adams will lead a Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network webinar titled “Why Become Cyber Ready? You Can’t Afford Not To: Cost Benefits of Cybersecurity” from noon-12:30 p.m. To register, go here.

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 look at the real financial and time costs of putting basic cybersecurity measures in place, as well as consider what percentage of assets could be at risk if small businesses do not establish basic cybersecurity readiness practices.

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.

Carbert, a UW student from Ranchester, is a cybersecurity program assistant in UW’s Cybersecurity Education and Research Center and a part-time employee with the Wyoming SBDC Network.

Moon, a UW student from Fort Collins, Colo., and Adams, a UW student from Cheyenne, are both cybersecurity program assistants with the Wyoming SBDC Network’s Cybersecurity Program.

For more information, call Tyler Schanck, marketing, communications and database manager for the Wyoming SBDC Network, at (307) 343-0925 or email tschanck@uwyo.edu.