FBI Honolulu to present free cybersecurity webinar for Hawaiʻi businesses Nov. 18

The University of Hawaiʻi Maui College will host a free Zoom webinar on Nov. 18 in which an FBI agent explains how the bureau’s Honolulu office handles digital forensics.

The session, “FBI Honolulu Computer Analysis Response Team Overview,” runs from noon to 1 p.m. It is open to sole proprietors and registered businesses in Hawaiʻi, including small businesses on Maui.

FBI Special Agent J. Lewis will present an overview of the FBI Honolulu Division’s Computer Analysis Response Team, known as CART. According to the announcement, the team includes professional staff and special agents who image, extract and preserve digital evidence.

The webinar will not be recorded, and no photos or slides will be made available. Register online to attend.

UH Maui College Professor Debasis Bhattacharya will facilitate the session. The aim of the webinar is for the UH Cybersecurity Clinic to work with the FBI Honolulu office to counter cybercrime and protect small businesses and the public in Hawaiʻi.

“The FBI CART team is leading efforts in the state to protect our citizens from cybercrime threats,” Bhattacharya said.

The webinar is the last in a series of three. The series was funded through $1 million in grant funding and wraparound support from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund to establish the University of Hawaiʻi Cybersecurity Clinics.

The UH clinic is one of 15 new clinics launching at colleges and universities nationwide. Google and the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics collaborated to make them possible.