SPARK.ed | Building Cyber Resiliency

Building Cyber Resiliency: Preparing for the Cyber Event Before it Happens

Cybersecurity articles and webinars are quick to advise on what to do when a cyber incident happens. While this advice is extremely helpful, the steps one can take in advance of a cyber incident can be even more useful. This is particularly true for small and emerging companies, as well as middle-market companies that don’t have the multi-million dollar budgets to implement security tools and hire forensically trained IT staff to stave off the daily onslaughts from threat actors and nation states that intend to do us harm. In other words, short of implementing the typical cyber defenses that high-end budgets can afford, what should companies do?

The simple response is this: build resiliency into your everyday network and employee training, prepare for the event as if it will happen, and never assume that you’re done. This is not a one and done world, and no IT defense is perfect as long as humans are involved.

About the Presenter:
This SPARK.ed is hosted by Ann Arbor SPARK and led by Claudia Rast, Shareholder and Chair of IP, Cybersecurity & Emerging Technology Group at Butzel. Claudia 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 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.