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A2Y Chamber’s Ask the Expert Small Business Workshop | Building Cyber Resiliency

Washtenaw Community College | Morris Lawrence Building, Room ML 150, 4800 E. Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor Tuesday, February 24, 2026   — 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Training Chamber Members: $25, Non-Chamber Members: $35
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Building Cyber Resiliency into your Everyday Practice: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of Increasingly Sophisticated Threats

Cybersecurity webinars are quick to advise on what to do when the cyber incident happens.  While this advice is extremely helpful, the focus of this session is to describe the steps companies should implement in advance of the cyber incident.  Whether your entity is large or small and enjoys a multi-million-dollar IT budget or a budget of merely thousands, you face the same daily onslaught from threat actors and nation states.  Their threats are constant and agnostic to size and dollars.

So, what should companies do to build cyber resiliency?

Join us to hear from Claudia Rast at Butzel to find out.

She will address the basic steps in building cyber resiliency and discuss how to:

  • Create an Incident Response Plan
  • Recruit an Incident Response Team
  • Implement robust and comprehensive training

This program will benefit both the executive team and the internal or external IT staff, all of whom need to be aware of these risks.

About Claudia:

Claudia Rast has been at the forefront of data protection and emerging technologies throughout her career. Whether counseling clients on preparing for, or responding to, global cyber incidents, complying with the increasing number of new state consumer privacy laws, or implementing policies and procedures to effectively use generative AI tools, she maintains her position as a renowned leader among technology practitioners.

Throughout her career, each year she is sought for her knowledge and insight – in areas ranging from Technology, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Data Breach, eDiscovery, and Social Media – locally and nationally as evidenced by the numerous presentations, publications, and speaking engagements. Claudia is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of of Detroit School of Law (cum laude), where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Detroit Law Review.