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Online cybersecurity clinic available for Hawaiʻi small businesses

Cyber class with students at ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Maui College

Cyber center with students at Kapiʻolani Community College

Cyber student with instructor at ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Maui College

“The One-Person Security Department: Building Your Own Tools for HawaiÊ»i IT on No Budget” is the topic for the first in a series of three free Zoom meetings presented by the for sole proprietors and registered businesses in HawaiÊ»i. 

Wednesday, September 16, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom

"Vulnerability scanners, SIEM (security, information and event management) platforms and asset management suites are all priced for organizations with 10 times a small business’s headcount. This session is about what a small business owner can build instead,” said David Stevens, associate professor of IT/Cybersecurity at and session lead for the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Cybersecurity Clinic.

Help for small businesses

The course will cover practical automation for small and resource-constrained IT shops: inventorying what is actually on your network; parsing logs without a SIEM; auditing configurations at scale; and building simple home-brew testing tools to probe your systems before someone else does.

“AI assistants have collapsed the barrier to entry here, so you no longer need to be a developer to get useful tooling running,” said Stevens. “Attendees will also get an honest account of where the AI gets it wrong, and the verification habits that keep a generated script from becoming your next incident.”

The three-session series is funded by $1 million in grant funding and wraparound support from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund to establish the . The clinic is one of 15 new ones launching at higher education institutions nationwide, made possible through a collaboration between Google and the .