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