Quick-Start Shoreline Tuesday: Data Breaches

Join the business community at Quick-Start on Tuesday March 10th, 2015 from 12:00 to 1:30pm at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Avenue N. 

Quick-Start Shoreline is presented by Shoreline Community College Small Business Accelerator and the City of Shoreline. These workshops are designed to be helpful for start-up, existing or potential business owners. Sessions are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.

A Finger in the Dike:

Coping with and Preventing Data Breaches

Whether your business is small or large, the greatest emerging technical fear over the last two years is to lose control of your company and customer information to hacktivists, cybercrooks, and nation states. Size doesn't matter; vulnerability to attack does. Let’s talk about how to reduce your vulnerability to attack and keep the trust of your customers.

Brian Boston

With over two decades  educating and supporting end-users, Brian Boston has continued to explore what technology can do for people and work to improve their computer experience. He understands the issues involved in teaching beginning computer users, supporting people's usage of computer software, training support engineers, working with disability groups seeking computer accommodations, and managing relationships with hundreds of technology experts.

Brian has helped individuals, high schools, local colleges, and companies seeking to improve the user computer experience. During his 18+ years with Microsoft Corporation, Brian supported and trained other support engineers in MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and other Microsoft products. He was part of the Accessible Technology Group, the development team that builds the Ease of Access Tools in Microsoft Windows. He also searched online technical communities for people who helped others with computer software through the Microsoft MVP Award Program and managed connections with hundreds of awardees worldwide.

Brian is available for speaking engagements and classes on various technology topics as well as one-on-one consultations.

Brian has also been a columnist for the Shoreline Area News. His columns can be found under the Tech Talk label in the Features section on the main webpage.