Cyber Security Masterclass for Small Businesses

Over 77% of all cybercrimes target small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) and yet, research shows 42% of small and midsize businesses don’t see cybercrime as a risk. Securing your growing enterprise against cyber threats is critical, but it takes time and resources away from growth activities. The problem only gets worse when traditional security solutions fail to stop advanced attacks.

SMEs face unique challenges in many areas, especially in Cybersecurity. Businesses need a cybersecurity strategy to protect your own business, your customers, and your data from growing cybersecurity threats. From understanding your risk to finding appropriate resources for mitigating that risk, many small business owners struggle to keep their small enterprise cyber-safe. Staying cyber-safe is a must for any business irrespective of the size of your business. The need to work within a budget is a challenge, which needs expert advice to negotiate shark-infested cyber waters.

The Cyber Security Masterclass provides strategies and suggestions for keeping small businesses safe from the ever-growing cyber threats. It includes ideas for calculating risk, understanding threats, plugging vulnerabilities, and implementing mitigation steps.

Learn the basics for protecting your business from cyber-attacks. The business cybersecurity resources in this Masterclass sessions (Weekend Classes) will provide knowledge on:

Date	Time	Topic
28 Aug 2021	10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Module 1: Understanding security basics & threat landscape
29 Aug 2021	10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Module 2: Planning security at SMEs
04 Sep 2021	10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Module 3: Security Journey at SMEs
05 Sep 2021	10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Module 4: Key Hacks

Speaker Details:

Mr. Aman Chhikara
CEO, Cybersec Knights Pvt. Ltd.

A security leader with over 17 years of Industry experience in different areas of security including Technology Risk Management, Information Security Compliance & Governance, Cyber Resilience, Data Privacy Management, Network Security etc.

Who Should attend & why:

Business owners / Board members – To understand why cybersecurity must be their focus & how focusing on it or ignoring it can impact their business.
CISO / CIOS / Security Heads / Security Architects / Security Consultants – To understand how they can improve the security posture of their organization
IT Managers / IT heads – To understand that Security is different than IT & how they can transform into leaders of future which requires this transformation.

Please find below a detailed Masterclass which spans into 4 sessions of WEEKEND classes:

Session 1Session 2Session 3Session 4

Date:
28th August 2021
10 am – 12 pm

Session:
UNDERSTANDING SECURITY BASICS & THREAT LANDSCAPE

Topic:
◈ Fundamentals
◈ Threat Landscape
◈ Attack Lifecycle
◈ Learning from Attacks

Focus Area:
◈ We can’t plan / implement Information security / Cyber Security, without understanding the basics & building blocks. Let’s start with this learning.
◈ Very important to be aware of what threats world is dealing with, which may target us any day.
◈ Lets understand the psychology of an attacker & the different stages of an attack. This will help us designing our strategy & controls better.
◈ Not always necessary to burn our hands to learn something. Lets learn from major attacks, how we can avoid similar trap.

Date:
29th August 2021
10 am – 12 pm

Session:
PLANNING SECURITY AT SMEs

Topic:
◈ Comprehensive Security
◈ Capabilities Required
◈ Challenges faced by SMEs
◈ Overcoming these challenges

Focus Area:
◈ Industry is talking of adopting Defense in Depth, Zero Trust model, Comprehensive Security. Let’s solve these puzzles.
◈ Lets explore what all capabilities an organization must have to deal with today’s cyber threats.
◈ There are fundamental challenges holding back SMEs to get equipped well on the cyber front. Let’s open up & discuss them.
◈ Talking of challenges will not be fruitful, if we don’t discuss the ways to overcome them. We’ll do it here.

Date:
04th September 2021
10 am – 12 pm

Session:
SECURITY JOURNEY AT SMEs

Topic:
◈ How to move forward
◈ Preparing for new normal
◈ Mistakes to avoid
◈ Key external services

Focus Area:
◈ Security is not a destination, but a journey. Let’s plan it together, see where you are & how can you move forward safely.
◈ The current pandemic has forced a new normal. Lets see how SMEs can prepare for it.
◈ We’ll discuss on few common mistakes done by organizations during their information security journey. We’ll discuss them so you can avoid.
◈ Not everything can be done in house by an SMEs but there are few important services which SMEs must adopt via external partners.

Date:
05th September 2021
10 am – 12 pm

Session:
KEY HACKS

Topic:
◈ How to improve security posture cost effectively ?
◈ How to increase effectiveness of solutions in place ?
◈ How to reduce operational challenges ?

Focus Area:
◈ SMEs have limited funds. Important to understand how they can rationalize that & gain more with their limited funds.
◈ Deploying a tool is one thing & getting best out of it another. We’ll learn that here.
◈ Security operations is a big pain area for SMEs. The session will help reducing that pain.