Empowering Hawaii Small Businesses with
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What We Do
Our Main Services are:
Cyber awareness training for companies to offer their employees, technical assessments of IT systems to identify vulnerabilities, and penetration testing to validate security, and recovery services if applicable.
Cyber Awareness Training
Available to businesses upon completion of their technical assessment, training will help identify the most common and best practices for maintaining good cyber hygiene that employers and employees should be aware of.
Technical Assessments
What you don’t know about your information system could lead to the loss of operations. Technical assessments will identify existing vulnerabilities that may be exploited by cyber criminals and provide recommended updates.
Penetration Testing
To ensure vulnerabilities have been addressed or additional updates are required, this project will perform penetration testing to validate the security of your information technology network.
Who Can Benefit
The Online Application Submission for Local HI Businesses for cybersecurity services is based upon the following eligibility criteria.
You must:
- Be a Hawaii-based business employing fifty (50) or fewer employees.
- Be generating revenue or a non-profit organization.
- If not at the time of submission, commit to enrolling as a client of a small business resource partner.
Benefits
How it Works & Benefits
First:
There is NO COST to your business to participate.
Second:
Business owners will gain a greater sense of security knowing their employees are trained and their systems are tested and secure.
Third:
Letting your customers know that your business has gone through these services may differentiate you from your competitors.
Training is available to all businesses that apply!
Who We Are
Cyber Safe Hawaii is a collaborative effort led by the State of Hawaii Department of Business Economic Development and Tourism and community resource partners to highlight the importance of cybersecurity for small businesses.
Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). All opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.
In the News
As featured in Local News KHON 2 Hawaii:
Cybersecurity funds & training available for small businesses
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A cyber security program to help small businesses strengthen their defenses and protect client information is the first of its kind in Hawaii.
“Cyber crime in general is on the rise. In the last, I’d say three months, we’ve had a big rash of it,” stated Derek Gabriel, Ignite Solutions Group CEO.
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Contact Us
Applicants with questions may contact Mark Ritchie at: mark.j.ritchie@hawaii.gov