Cybersecurity Center For Business

Become a Business Partner

To tackle the growing risk of cyber-crime in America’s business ecosystem, the CCB offers cybersecurity education, training, and resources for small businesses, educational institutions, and governments.

Our apprentices are expertly trained by UW-Whitewater professors and faculty, providing them the technical expertise to help develop your security policies, evaluate and prepare digital forensic evidence reports, and ultimately enable your organization to mitigate, or avoid altogether, the harmful effects of a cyber-attack.

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Is Your Company Prepared For A Cybersecurity Attack?

Upon deployment, your Cybersecurity Center for Business (CCB) apprentice will ensure your business disruptions are minimized, systems stay ahead of new threats and vulnerabilities, and your customers enjoy a seamless experience. Employer benefits include:

SAVE MONEY: Our apprentices are effcient, results-oriented, and signifcantly more cost-efective than hiring a consultant.
REDUCE TURNOVER: Most apprentices choose to stay on with the employer who hired them as an apprentice.
DEVELOP HIGHLY SKILLED WORKFORCE: Businesses can customize the training and workforce development to their specifcations.
BUILD A PIPELINE OF QUALIFIED WORKERS: One successful apprentice leads employers to hire another, continuing this benefcial partnership.
SYSTEMATIC APPROACH: These apprentices are being trained and certifed to implement a wide variety of required skill sets to assist in maintaining cybersecurity for your organization.

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Protect Your Business Online

When was the last time, you updated your computer, managed your network security, or backed up your files? As a busy business owner, you might not even remember. You have to run your business and don’t have time to keep up with all the updates, security patches, and latest best practices.

This is exactly why you need a cybersecurity apprentice! By investing in a cybersecurity apprentice, you have someone on your team who can help initiate and improve your cybersecurity processes and procedures to safeguard your business against a cyberattack.

By reducing your risk of a cyberattack, you are reducing the risk of lost money, business, and time. Furthermore, you are safeguarding your brand reputation and your customer base.

In today’s digital world, it is more of a question of when a cyberattack will occur rather than “if”!

The average cost of a data breach is $3.92 million as of 2019 (Security Intelligence)
The average cost of a ransomware attack is $133,000 (SafeatLast)
The average cost of a malware attack is $2.6 million (Accenture)

With the cost of a cyberattack in mind, it is wise to take a proactive approach to protecting your business by bringing on a cybersecurity apprentice to help you accomplish this daunting challenge!

Our Apprentices Can Help

Our cyber professionals are highly trained to protect your business from cyber attack, and will:

Create a cybersecurity plan
Reduce risk of attacks
Improve response time if an attack occurs
Enhance compliance with regulatory mandates
Mitigate damage caused by security incidents
Ensure due diligence with monitoring/response

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Benefits of Investing in Cybersecurity

PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS
Take a proactive approach, build your defense against a cyberattack, & protect your business.

PROMOTE BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Safeguarding against a cyberattack positions you to protect your brand reputation and ultimately the continuity of your business.

PROTECT YOUR CUSTOMERS
Leverage data security and cybersecurity to protect your customer’s confidentiality and privacy to encourage loyalty & repeat business.

BUILD INTERNAL COMPETENCY
Build internal cybersecurity competencies that fit your organizational culture while diversifying your workforce.

Apprenticeship Program

Over the next four years, the Cybersecurity Center for Business will train 1,600 apprentices and partner with approximately 700 private and public companies and K-12 sectors. The apprenticeship program is made possible through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Apprenticeship: Closing the Skills Gap grant and a multi-department university collaboration between the College of Business and Economics, the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
Apprenticeship Program

How It Works

Our apprentices complete 16 weeks of training with University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professors.
Apprentices work a minimum of 600 hours, and must be paid a minimum of $12 per hour.
Apprentices create a cybersecurity plan for your business using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework.