Small Business Cybersecurity Symposium

Protect your business from cyber threats!

This event is relevant for businesses of all sizes - from solo entrepreneurs to multi million dollar companies!

Hear from experts about cybersecurity dangers and how to protect yourself and your company!

This event will include lunch and networking opportunities.

Some of the topics we will cover include:

• Selling or Buying a Business? Learn how your business’ cybersecurity/privacy impacts its value and deal terms– like earn outs.
• Cyber Insurance– Yes No or Maybe? Learn to get the most out of Cyber Insurance – AND avoid costly missteps.
• Ransomware from countries like Russia and China targets small/medium businesses- Learn how to move from “hope & prayers” that your business will be ok when ransomware hits to knowing it will be ok.
• New Threats from AI/Deep Fakes and Quantum Computing
• AI’s Impact from the recent 2024 Ponemon Institute’s Cost of a Data Breach Study and Report
• Effective data protection strategies and techniques for the new era of AI/Deep Fakes and Quantum Computing risk
• The cyber threat landscape
• Cyber SWOT analysis
• Cyber threats – technology issue vs. financial issue

We have an amazing speaker lineup!

Michael Melore CISSP

IBM Public Sector Security Evangelist Certified Information Systems Security Professional Author frequent National public speaker and moderator FBI InfraGard committeeman and recognized subject matter expert in Security and Threat Intelligence Identity Access Governance and Authorization. Pioneer in Identity and Access Management Access Governance and Authentication.

Past Consulting roles include: Lead architect for many of the world’s largest authentication and authorization infrastructures. This includes two of the 1st individual Billion user authentication infrastructures.

Founder/Moderator for 28 Nationwide (1900+ Security Executive Members) CISO/Security Leader Round Table Chapters across the US (aka www.SecRT.us).

Champion host and evangelist of regularly scheduled cyber range threat simulation exercises cyber training and education.

Tom Allen

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Opango Inc

With more than 30 years’ experience in small medium and large enterprises Tom Allen has extensive experience growing thriving organizations and delivering products to the global marketplace.

Tom serves on the Board of Directors and COO for Elemental Cyber Security. He also serves on the Advisory Board for Cyber Ready. He has spoken to the North Texas Cyber Security Group ISSA Forth Worth The Aerospace and Defense forum the ISSA North Texas annual Cybersecurity summit and many others. He also attends the annual update with the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force.

Cyber Security is a primary market for Opango’s Learning Management System. Primarily for training on Cyber Frameworks and Cyber Hygiene.

Prior to founding Opango Tom served as COO for Privacy Inc. Tom’s experience includes serving as Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Vocaldata and Transat Technologies. In these positions he developed Telco quality products in the Voice Over IP and Wi-Fi Hotspot markets and delivered these products worldwide. He also held several executive positions within Glenayre’s Integrated Network Group including Vice President and General Manager of Open Development Corp. Vice President of Product Management and Vice President of Product Development. Prior to Glenayre Tom held executive positions with Interphase Corp. and DSC.

Tom earned his BSMS from UTD and Executive MBA from the University of Florida

John Allen

President and Managing Agent

John Allen is owner of Community Insurance Advisors an independent property and casualty agency. John believes a significant percentage of the conversations people have about insurance coverage are incomplete and/or incorrect and has therefore made the mission of his agency to raise the bar by delivering quality programs with reliable professional and knowledgeable agents. His previous work experience includes national account sales and product management in the transportation industry and outsourced contact center management.

John earned his BA from Illinois and his MBA from Loyola Marymount.

Henry Draughon

Henry is on a mission to help you eliminate confusion from complex procedures & enable your teams to bring about faster more knowledgeable consensus-based corporate-aligned outcomes. Today with the volume of information thrown at them team members can only afford 8 seconds to decide which procedures to pick & how to follow them.

Henry’s consulting practice focuses on helping you define capture & centralize your processes & related resources so team members can more quickly understand collaborate more efficiently and make more effective decisions.

Lori Meyer Nugent

Lori is a cybersecurity/privacy law founder. She’s also a cyber insurance pioneer. A Thompson*Reuters published author Lori is a frequent local national and international speaker. As an equity partner at top 100 law firms Lori lead practice groups focused on cybersecurity enterprise risks and privacy.

In 2019 she founded LMN Legal Consulting LLC providing businesses and lawyers with an alternative to BigLaw/traditional legal services. Teams Lori serves and leads have been defending organizations facing data breaches and ransomware attacks for more than 20 years. But involving Lori BEFORE an attack creates the best competitive advantages.

Lauren Albrecht

With over 15 years of experience in business consulting Lauren Albrecht has worked across industries such as HR employee benefits and IT recruiting. Currently Lauren is a business consultant at DKBinnovative an IT service provider specializing in small to medium-sized businesses.

DKBinnovative offers a full range of services from help desk support to cybersecurity and infrastructure management. DKBinnovative also provides consulting and strategy services tailored to each business’s unique needs ensuring they receive the optimal IT solutions for their situation.

Her approach focuses on forging lasting partnerships by working closely with business owners to identify the right solution—whether through DKBinnovative or another provider—ensuring the best fit for their long-term success.

Emily Bell-Wootten

Emily Bell-Wootten is a versatile marketer and technologist dedicated to developing strategic and tactical growth plans for businesses ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. With experience as a CEO CMO fractional CMO and Innovation Ambassador she has played a key role in generating over $1 billion in revenue growth for 60 brands across 17 industries. Renowned for her visionary thinking and ethical leadership Emily specializes in human-centered design creating brands that leave a lasting impact.

Recently Emily has pivoted to focus on cybersecurity authoring a Cybersecurity Manual for Business in collaboration with the Plano Chamber of Commerce. She also founded EBW Consulting where she serves as a Fractional CMO and will provide cybersecurity awareness programs and technology for small business leaders. Additionally Emily is committed to her community serving as a board member and volunteer for several non-profit organizations.

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