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Protect your business: Â鶹´«Ã½offers free cybersecurity clinic

Sign up now to safeguard your small business. The is launching a new series of free virtual meetings to help sole proprietors and small business owners across Hawaiʻi fortify their operations against online threats. The first session, focusing on essential "cyber hygiene," is a crucial opportunity for local entrepreneurs to gain vital protection for their data and systems.

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The inaugural "Introduction to Cybersecurity: Cyber Hygiene" clinic will be held on Wednesday, January 21st, from noon to 1 p.m., HST, via Zoom.

Small businesses are frequent targets for cybercriminals, often due to limited resources. This clinic provides critically important, routine practices to protect networks and data. Debasis Bhattacharya, professor and program coordinator of the Â鶹´«Ã½Maui College Applied Business and Information Technology Program, said cyber hygiene is "very much like maintaining personal health." He will lead the workshops with David Stevens, assistant professor at KapiÊ»olani Community College.

The introductory session will cover fundamental topics, including:

• 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 may be found .

These sessions are offered at no cost, thanks to 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 HawaiÊ»i Cybersecurity Clinics. The Â鶹´«Ã½Cybersecurity Clinic is one of 15 launching nationwide.