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This essential webinar will guide you through the complex strategic and legal challenges facing employee-owned businesses today. Learn to master critical areas, including effective Intellectual Property (IP) documentation tied to business management and navigating the IP concerns of owner-employees. We will also provide crucial strategies for integrating new hires, mitigating Artificial Intelligence (AI) risks, and balancing the demands of scaleability versus saleability to ensure your company maintains its competitive advantage.

Cybersecurity isn’t just an IT issue—it’s a business survival issue. This webinar introduces the core cybersecurity risks impacting small businesses in 2026 and what owners can do today to protect their operations.

Key topics include:

1. Common cyber-attacks affecting small businesses
2. Financial and operational impacts of cyber incidents
3. Data protection and privacy basics
4. Managing vendor and partner risk
5. Simple cybersecurity best practices that work

Designed for non-technical audiences, this session emphasizes clarity, confidence, and practical next steps.

Project Spectrum is a U.S. Department of War (DoW) Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) initiative that provides a free, online cybersecurity education + readiness platform—aimed mainly at small and mid-sized businesses in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB)

This webinar will showcase Project Spectrum’s impact and provide a vision for the future.

You will learn:

• What are the cybersecurity expectations for DoW contractors
• Use training, tools, and practical resources to help you build “cyber hygiene” and get ready for compliance expectations.
• Use self-assessments / risk assessments so you can see where you stand and what gaps to fix
• Prepare for CMMC-related requirements (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification)

Recent disruptions—from pandemics to infrastructure failures to (rapidly) changing trade policies —have exposed critical vulnerabilities in the U.S. supply chain. These challenges demand coordinated, data-informed responses that bridge the gap between siloed operations and system-wide visibility, and yet be privacy preserving. This workshop will convene experts from academia, industry, and government to address the vision laid out in the OKN Roadmap: an Open Knowledge Network (OKN) to enable real-time visibility and resilience across the national supply chain.

The workshop will be structured around three concrete supply chain scenarios: water supply, manufacturing contracts and freight transportation. For each of these scenarios, we will assess the state of practice and emerging challenges. We will use that information to formulate concrete project proposals to accelerate their solutions.

Registration fee is $215. Fee includes: AM Break and Snacks, Lunch on both days, PM Break and Snack and Dinner on March 9. Registration will close by COB March 3, 2026.

This presentation will walk small business owners through the basics of (i) why cybersecurity is important; (ii) high level cybersecurity and privacy obligations a business owner might have; (iii) steps business owners can take to help protect their business and their customers; and (iv) what to do in the case of a cybersecurity incident.

Explore advanced cybersecurity tactics to strengthen your business against ever-evolving threats. In this no-fee webinar, we will guide you beyond the Cybersecurity Basics trainings into a deeper exploration of essential topics for building cyber resilience.

Join us for this webinar hosted by the NorCal Small Business Development Center. Zack Barton will lead a discussion with renowned cybersecurity specialist, Jacob Blacksten, to highlight the importance of password management, multi-factor authentication, emergency response plans, and staff training within today's digital space.