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Weathering the Storm:Protecting Your Nonprofit and Yourself in Uncertain Times (Parts 1-3)

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What it's all about

In these turbulent times, risk is everywhere—you and your nonprofit are more vulnerable than ever. 

RoundTable Technology’s three-part webinar series, led by data privacy experts Destiny Bowers and Karim Beldjilali, offered nonprofits essential guidance to navigate today’s growing digital and operational threats. Each session focused on a specific layer of protection—personal, organizational, and long-term resilience—empowering attendees with immediate and practical steps to strengthen their defenses.

Part 1 (April 17th): Covered understanding risk and threats, and how they applied to personal security.

Part 2 (May 1st): Focused on organizational risk management, reducing liability, and implementing baseline protections.

Part 3 (May 15th): Addressed maintaining a strong security posture and key actions needed for ongoing protection and success.

Part 1: Understanding Risk & Protecting Yourself

This session focused on personal digital safety and how nonprofit professionals can reduce their exposure to modern cyber threats.

In this session you'll learn:

  • What “risk” really means in the digital age
  • The specific threats targeting nonprofit professionals today
  • How to minimize your online footprint and reduce personal exposure
  • How to identify red flags and early signs of attacks
  • Practical strategies for strengthening your personal cyber hygiene
  • Tips for educating your team and building accountability

This foundational session emphasized that resilience begins at the individual level, with proactive habits and awareness.

Part 2: Organizational Risk Management & Baseline Protections

Building on the personal-level strategies, this session turned the focus to organizational risk—highlighting the importance of system-level safeguards and culture.

In this session you'll learn how to:

  • Identify key organizational risks and liability exposures
  • Implement baseline protections to reduce vulnerability
  • Establish clear internal policies and controls
  • Develop a culture of shared accountability and awareness
  • Create effective incident response and business continuity plans

Attendees left with a roadmap for fortifying their organization’s core defenses in an unpredictable environment.

Part 3: Maintaining Your Security Posture for Long-Term Resilience

The final session focused on sustainability—how to ensure long-term protection through vigilance, adaptability, and continuous improvement.

In this session you'll learn how to:

  • Build a sustainable security and risk management program
  • Conduct regular assessments and audits to identify new risks
  • Maintain and update policies as your organization evolves
  • Promote ongoing staff training and security awareness
  • Create a culture of continuous improvement and vigilance

This session provided a clear framework for nonprofits to evolve their protections and remain resilient in the face of future challenges.

Whether tackling personal vulnerabilities or institutional risks, this webinar series was a call to action. It equipped nonprofit professionals with the insights and tools to safeguard their missions, their teams, and themselves—no matter the storm ahead.

 

Presenters

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Destiny Bowers

Destiny has two decades of IT experience across a wide range of projects and platforms, she's helped organizations large and small, nonprofit and for-profit, cloud-loving and cloud-phobic to select and implement technology that helps them succeed.

She helps hundreds of nonprofits stay informed about cybersecurity awareness training and best practices, as well as providing high-level strategic services to improve their technological efficiency and security.

As the workforce continues to increase its distribution around the globe and with the rising popularity of remote work, Destiny has proven herself to be a transformational thinker when it comes to cloud services for today's hybrid or fully-remote workforce.

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Karim Beldjilali

Karim is passionate about supporting organizations with service-oriented missions and how they can leverage technology to more effectively meet their mission.  With 20 years experience in technology, ranging from engineering, security and compliance, and IT, Karim has held leadership positions to strategically manage security and IT programs for nonprofits, startups, or established enterprises.

Through a people-first lens, and in cross-functional partnership that keeps all stakeholders in mind, he is dedicated to finding practical meaningful solutions. He has built security and compliance programs, bootstrapped IT operations, and led organizational risk management. So whether moving to the cloud, assessing or hardening for security and compliance, refactoring existing technology or processes, or providing training and mentoring, Karim is ready to plug in and support organizations in major changes and continuous improvement efforts.