Cybersecurity Readiness for Small Business
Funded by US-SBA
Program Goals
- Leverage ODU's Cybersecurity Expertise and Resources
- Identify, Reach, and Serve Small Businesses
- Offer Cybersecurity Education and Training
- Improve Incident Resolution
- Cybersecurity Pilot Program for Small Business
- Targeted Training and Service Goals
Program Approach
- Roundtable with small businesses to identify cybersecurity concerns
- Design and deliver Instructor-Led Training (ILT) Sessions
- Design and deliver Interactive Multimedia Training Sessions for Self-paced learning
- Free software to identify cybersecurity compliance status of small businesses
Programmatic Activities
- Phase I: Delivered Five training sessions based on the roundtable discussions with small businesses
- Phishing, Smishing, and Vishing
- Ransomware
- Cloud Security and Third-Party Vendor Cybersecurity Risks
- Malware
- Data or Storage Reconnaissance and Breaches
Programmatic Activities
- Phase II: Design and Development of cybersecurity compliance tool
- Design, Development, and Implementation of IMI (Interactive Multimedia Instruction) based self-paced training modules
- Cybersecurity Compliance Challenges to Small Business (C3SB)
- Simplified NIST control guidelines
- Automated cybersecurity compliance status
- Cybersecurity posture of small business
Contact Us!
Dr. Safdar Bouk
Research Assistant Professor
Sbouk@odu.edu
Dr. Sachin Shetty
Executive Director of Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical Systems
Sshetty@odu.edu
Location:
1030 University Boulevard, Suffolk, VA 23435