Cybersecurity Resources

Practical education, trusted sources, and clear next steps for business owners, employees, and IT teams in Austin, Houston, and Lampasas.

Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility. Understanding your role is the first step toward protecting your business.

InfraGard is an FBI partnership with members of the private sector focused on protecting U.S. critical infrastructure. It brings people together through education, information sharing, networking, and workshops about emerging threats and technologies.

Its membership includes business leaders, IT professionals, security personnel, and other participants who contribute industry knowledge. Visit the official website to learn about the program and current membership application requirements.

Hiring an IT provider, buying security software, or joining an information-sharing program does not remove the need for leadership and employee involvement. Each participant needs a clear role, and someone must verify that the work is getting done.

• Business owners and executives: Identify critical operations and sensitive information, approve policies and resources, assign responsibility, and make decisions about business risk.
• Employees: Follow security policies, complete awareness training, verify unusual requests, and report suspicious messages or activity promptly.
• Internal IT and managed service providers: Carry out the agreed security work, document coverage and gaps, maintain systems, manage access, and test backups and response procedures.
• Software and cloud providers: Protect the parts of a service covered by their agreements. Your organization still needs to understand its responsibilities for accounts, permissions, configurations, and data.
• Law enforcement and information-sharing partners: Support threat awareness, collaboration, and investigation. Businesses remain responsible for their own day-to-day safeguards.

Shared responsibility should mean clear ownership. Write down who performs each task, who reviews it, and who takes over when that person is unavailable.

Start with a few questions that expose gaps between expectations and actual coverage:

• Who confirms that multifactor authentication is enabled for the accounts that need it?
• Who checks whether every supported device has the agreed endpoint protection?
• Who disables access when an employee leaves?
• Who tests backup restoration, and when was the last successful test?
• Who receives security alerts, and who responds after hours?
• Who contacts leadership, the IT provider, and law enforcement during an incident?

For example, a business owner may assume that backups are being tested while the IT provider’s agreement covers only backup monitoring. A written responsibility list and a scheduled review help catch that gap before a disruption.

• Cybersecurity Guides & Downloadable Flyers — practical education for your team.
• Cybersecurity for Business Owners & Executives — connect security decisions to business priorities.
• Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises — practice roles and decisions before an incident.
• Microsoft Intune Setup & Support — explore device management and corporate policies.