Protect your business: University of Hawaiʻi offers new series of free cybersecurity clinics

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University of Hawaiʻi Cybersecurity Clinic is launching a new series of free online meetings to help Hawaiʻi’s sole proprietors and small business owners fortify their operations against cyber threats.

The first session — focusing on essential “cyber hygiene” — is a crucial opportunity for island entrepreneurs to gain vital protection for their data and systems.

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The inaugural “Introduction to Cybersecurity: Cyber Hygiene” clinic is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 21 via Zoom.

Small businesses are frequent targets for cybercriminals, often because of limited resources.

This clinic provides critically important, routine practices to protect networks and data.

University of Hawaiʻi-Maui College Applied Business and Information Technology Program professor and program coordinator Debasis Bhattacharya said “cyber hygiene” is “very much like maintaining personal health.”

Bhattacharya will lead the workshops with Kapiʻolani Community College assistant professor David Stevens.

The introductory session will cover these fundamental topics:

• Strong password policies and multi-factor authentication.
• Regular software updates and patching.
• Data backups and recovery.
• Employee training and awareness.
• Secure network and devices.
• Access controls and incident response planning.

No professional technical background is required, only fundamental knowledge of the internet.

Additional information about this and subsequent events can be found online.

These sessions are offered at no cost because of a collaboration between Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund and the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, which provided $1 million in grant funding to establish the University of Hawaiʻi Cybersecurity Clinic.

The University of Hawaiʻi Cybersecurity Clinic is one of 15 to launch nationwide.