Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Business from Fraud

Is your business safe from a cyber-attack? Small business owners will learn what actions they can take to take to lessen the risk of their business being hacked or compromised by a cybersecurity incident. In the past four years, cyber-attacks on small businesses have increased 660 percent. According to the National Small Business Association, the average attack on a small business costs that business $7,115.  Companies that had their bank accounts hacked lost an average of $32,020.

The goal of this seminar is to protect your organization's confidential data from cyber and internal criminals. This session focuses on a widespread form of targeted fraud impacting small- to medium-sized businesses, non-profits, schools and public sector entities utilizing today’s technology. Perpetrators of the crime attempt to transfer money out of bank accounts using wire transfers and ACH transactions, as well as other internal fraud schemes.  

FBI-recommended risk mitigation techniques will be presented. Learn inexpensive and zero cost measures to protect your business today.

• Hear from a panel of experts in the fields of accounting, information technology, banking, insurance and computer recycling
• Learn the steps to safeguard your business
• Learn how to access resources and connect to professionals

The presentation will cover:

1. Introduction: internal/external risk

2. Description: how the fraud works, victim selection, perpetration methods

3. Protection: education; computer, network and process enhancements; responsibilities and liabilities

4. Detection: account monitoring, warning signs, anti-virus software

5. Response: compromised computer handling and reporting suspicious activity

6.  Destruction: how to safely destroy hardware and responsible disposal