Small-business owners who run their companies on cell phones can learn about the ways
hackers can take over their phones and what businesses can do to keep them out Thursday,
Oct. 17.
Paul Johnson, Jim Drever, Ian Moon and Kaeden Adams will lead a Wyoming Small Business
Development Center (SBDC) Network webinar titled “Protecting Your Phone From Cyber
Criminals” from noon-12:30 p.m. To register, go here. Registration is free.
The Wyoming SBDC Network offers business expertise to help Wyoming residents think
about, launch, grow, reinvent or exit their business. The Wyoming SBDC Network is
hosted by the University of Wyoming with state funds from the Wyoming Business Council
and funded, in part, through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business
Administration.
The webinar will cover how a hacked phone can spell disaster; the ways hackers can
take over phones; and what small-business owners can do to keep hackers out.
Johnson is manager of the Wyoming SBDC Network’s Cybersecurity Program.
Drever is the Wyoming SBDC Network regional director for Albany and Carbon counties.
Previously, he was a marketing director and project manager at a software company,
had a small consulting business and recently co-founded CyberWyoming with the Made
Safe in Wyoming program.
Drever has been a source for cybersecurity for small businesses in The Wall Street
Journal and has presented on the topic at national conferences. Beyond general business
assistance, Drever specializes in e-marketing, e-commerce and risk management, especially
cybersecurity. He is a certified ethical hacker and has a chief information security
officer specialist certification with a background in vulnerability assessment, ethical
hacking and cybersecurity risk assessment and management. He assists and advises clients
about cybersecurity statewide.
Moon, a UW student from Fort Collins, Colo., and Adams, a UW student from Cheyenne,
are both cybersecurity program assistants with the Wyoming SBDC Network’s Cybersecurity
Program.
For more information, call Tyler Schanck, marketing, communications and database manager
for the Wyoming SBDC Network, at (307) 343-0925 or email tschanck@uwyo.edu.
