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Cybersecurity is an important issue for businesses of all sizes. In this workshop, we’ll introduce the basics of online security and how it applies to your business and customers. You’ll learn ways you can identify common digital threats and steps you can take to protect your business. You’ll walk away with practical tips and tools to increase your business’ cybersecurity, as well as learn about the Google Cybersecurity Career Certificate to help your employees build skills in this space.

In this session we’ll talk about:

• Why cybersecurity matters for businesses of all sizes
• How to protect your business and your customers online
• What steps you can take after a potential security breach

One of the major updates to CSF 2.0 is the creation of the Govern Function, highlighting the importance of ensuring cybersecurity capabilities support the broader mission through Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).

Governance is the process of determining enterprise objectives, setting direction to achieve those objectives, and monitoring performance to adjust strategy as necessary. Risk governance provides the transparency, responsibility, and accountability that enables managers to effectively manage risk. NIST recently updated a series of publications on integration of Cybersecurity and ERM to align with revisions to CSF 2.0, which can be found here: NIST IR 8286.

In the second webinar of NIST’s new multi-part CSF 2.0 webinar series, we will provide a discussion covering:

• Defining and demystifying governance.
• The role of the Govern Function in a cybersecurity-focused framework.
• Strategies for bidirectional communication between cybersecurity practitioners and leadership using best practice governance models.
• How organizations of all sizes can put cybersecurity governance into practice using the CSF 2.0.
• How you can use the CSF in conjunction with other NIST publications (such as NIST IR 8286 Parts A-D, SP 800-37r2, etc.) to better integrate cybersecurity and enterprise risk management for governance oversight. 
• Where to find CSF 2.0 implementation resources in support of cybersecurity governance.

Time will be reserved at the end for audience questions.

Speakers:

• Julie Chua, Division Chief, Applied Cybersecurity Division, NIST
• Nahla Ivy, Enterprise Risk Management Officer, Office of Financial Resources Management, NIST
• Daniel Eliot, Lead for Small Business Engagement, Applied Cybersecurity Division, NIST 

Cyberattacks are no longer a big-business-only problem. Small businesses are now prime targets, and AI-powered threats are making attacks faster, cheaper, and harder to detect. 

This session cuts through the noise and gives small business owners the essential playbook to secure operations, protect customer trust, and stay one step ahead — all without breaking the budget.