UW and Wyoming SBDC Network to Host Cyber Hacker Protection Webinar May 15

Small-business owners can learn how to protect themselves against cyber criminals who crack passwords and get people to fall for scams by using social engineering and deepfake strategies Thursday, May 15.

Paul Johnson, Marree Reed, Izabella Carbert, Ian Moon and Kaeden Adams will lead a Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network webinar titled “How Did You Know That? How Hackers Use Social Engineering and Deepfakes to Scam You” 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 present examples of scams and cyberattacks through social engineering and AI deepfake trickery; practical tips to navigate the evolving landscape of online threats; and provide small-business owners with information to fortify their defenses from hackers to keep their businesses safer online.

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.