Cyber Security: A New Year's Resolution for Your Business

Cyber Security: A New Year's Resolution for Your Business

Join The Chamber to learn about cyber security with Brian Dennis, the director of the Kansas SBDC Cyber Security Center for Small Business, on Friday, January 18, at 11:30 a.m. at Maceli's, 1031 New Hampshire St. The cost is $15 per person and lunch will be provided. This event is sponsored by M Cubed Technologies.

What percentage of your employees take a laptop, smartphone or tablet containing company information out of the office at night or on weekends?
Do you have a wireless network at your office?
Do you have a website for your business?
Is your company dependent on the internet for its day-to-day operations?
Would it be disruptive to your business if you lost internet access for 48 hours in a row during the course of your regular business week?
Do you handle any sensitive information and store in on a local hard drive or in the cloud including financial records, employee personal data, intellectual property, customer information or credit card data?

As you may already have guessed, if you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, you should be thinking about cyber defense for your business.

Small businesses (less than 500 employees) are often the back door into the large attacks that make the trending news on Twitter. Hackers target these businesses under the belief that a) smaller businesses assume they will never be attacked and are complacent in monitoring intrusions or b) they don’t have any systems in place for monitoring or protection because they don’t invest in the people or the financial resources to protect their businesses.

Learn how to protect your business and make cyber security your New Year's Resolution for your business! You can take a FREE online cyber security assessment from the SBDC by clicking here.